I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.
Naturally have a belief that you can make a difference and you will make it unknowingly.
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.
But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary.
Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.
