Quotes of: Beliefs Keyword

Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

The Neverending Story

I've got no religious beliefs at all.

Martin Rees

It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish.

French

And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed anymore.

Moving Pictures

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

Ken Livingstone

I have a very deep religious belief.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Horst Koehler

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Edith Hamilton

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easi...

The Broken Crown

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practica...

The Root of the Righteous

The belief-transmission network of which we are a part cannot operate without a continuously replenished supply of people to do the transmitting, thus the belief that children are a source of happiness becomes a part of our cultural wisdom simply bec...

Stumbling on Happiness

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

Liz Williams

I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else

Cornelius Van Til

The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people...

Andrew B. Newberg

Do your beliefs create your goals or are your beliefs a result of achieving your goals?

Julian Pencilliah

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

E. O. Wilson

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electr...

American Gods

We need more explorers in consciousness and less followers of beliefs, isms, and credos. Religions and spiritual leaders influence millions by pushing their beliefs. They believe in the Bible, the Koran, and the Gita, but do not personally ‘know’...

Robert S. Cosmar

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

On Certainty

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

William Kingdon Clifford