To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
Beliefs divide us, values unite us." from Godless – Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs
Beliefs divide us; values unite us." Godless - Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs.
Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as ...
The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is not utopian. It is merely to provide good reasons for being an atheist. … My object is to show that atheism is a rational position and t...
I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Som...
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the ad...
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this ...
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the mann...
Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
