Quotes about beliefs

Don't just conform ask questions.Don't just believe if it isn't your truth.Don't follow dogma it is blindness.Just love don't kill to go to heaven.

I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn’t an easy thing but it’s the right thing to do be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

You can choose to believe whatever you wish just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego it sure is good for his intellect.

If a belief is hurting you perhaps it is time for a new belief. Your truth shouldn't hurt.

Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.

Trust comes from courage beliefs are derived from fear.

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is how we let them really know us.

As the sun knows even the sky is not the limit...

Your beliefs are decisions they are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.

You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them.

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true...We may have defined ourselves in a limiting way based on our history and the opinion of others...and we stay stuck there because we fail to recognize there is a door right in front of us providing another opportunity to redefine who we are today.

...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring the boys up to believe in them?""I hope they believe in something," said Elspeth. 'Imagaine believing in nothing at all--not even in love, or justice, or any of the things that can make people passionate.""Such as a country?"Elspeth thought about this. "I suppose there are lots of people who believe in Scotland. Or the European Union, for that matter. Their belief anables them to ... well, to talk a

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.

Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe.

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

Our decisions are influenced by our beliefs and this is why we say our reality is what we believe in.

All experiences, emotions, behaviors and beliefs, that make us humans, are the creation of various intricate and inexplicable molecular interactions within the brain.

Your reality is based upon your beliefs.

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality.

Experiential reality is a pure reflection of your own state of being. You see what you believe. It is that simple.

Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.

Dreams do come true for those who dare to believe in themselves.

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...

When you change what you believe, you change what you do... which changes what you get.

Time provides all of us with the opportunity to change, alter our belief system, and create new perspectives that challenge a person’s character and teach him or her how to become a happier and wiser person.

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.

You don’t need validation or approval from anyone but yourself. Even if the entire world goes against, disagrees with or attempts to crush you, stand up for what you believe in, and stand up alone if you have to! It’s better to die while living your own truth than to live in the truth of another. Lord Krishna in the holy Bhagavad Gita pointed this out when he said;“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” Integrity is t

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

We are living on what we believe and the virtues upon which we stand.

If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably not be living in the USA.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.

When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth.  For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our species deserves the credit. I am a devout atheist - nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so obvious, still believe in a mystical creator. However I can see that the promise of infinite immortality is a more palatable proposi

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.

Empowering beliefs are ideas that launch us forward and help us to become the person we want to be. Empowering beliefs are freeing, encouraging, and inclusive; they nurture and uplift. When we find ourselves harboring a limiting belief, we need to replace it with one that cultivates joy.

Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.

When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don't be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If you are filled with untruths, those characteristics make it hard for anyone to believe in you.

People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth.

As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you're on the right path. And when you are faced with adversity, it challenges you but makes you stronger. The road is not always an easy route. Nevertheless, you must not allow your fears to keep you from reaching the destination.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the decisions you make and actions you take today.

Shamrocks And roses In an ever green flock Now Up to your noses Turning into a high stock! People nice and seen All around you green! These lucky streams Realizing major dreams. In strives, when in pain Call oh call up my name, Know it isn't in vain...

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.It all points to the promotion of the idea that there should be a right not to be of

Being gentle doesn’t stop us fighting for our dreams.

Examine your beliefs and break free.

If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

People don’t believe the truth but believe what they constantly hear.

People generally believe that which they wish to believe and disbelieve that which is unpleasant.

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

I don’t do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs.

... It is not possible, says Weber, to confer the objective validity of facts on the basis of a value-judgement; and second, it is not possible to judge the value of values through the use of scientific reason. This leads him to maintain a distinction between science and ethics, the former dealing with questions of fact, the latter with questions of value.

Society, in fact, often holds it to be a virtue to adhere to certain beliefs in spite of evidence to the contrary. Belief in that which reason denies is associated with steadfastness and courage, while skepticism is often identified with cynicism and weak character. The more persuasive the evidence against a belief, the more virtuous it is deemed to persist in it. We honor faith. Faith can be a positive force, enabling people to persevere in the face of daunting odds, but the line between persev

[Art] acts as 'an instrument allowing us to see through the gaps of dominant ideologies, and the source from which new methods could be drawn in the struggle against the system(s)'.

... researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.

In modern neurotheology we examine the physical bases to spiritual, religious and mystical experiences and beliefs, that implicitly appear to reduce this rich phenomenology to only neuronal functions. So, the thing is, there was no divine intervention necessary in the evolution of spirituality and religiosity. “Human Brain is the true God of all beliefs”.

Key the mind, and set the soul free.

To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.

When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions

In order to build a system of values you need time and persistence

It is important to build inner core, form beliefs and life values

If you can’t trust yourself, love yourself and believe in your dreams, it makes it hard for anyone else to trust, love or believe in you.

You hold within you a system of values and beliefs

Forming good values and beliefs comes by determining what they should be and then building them inside of you

Negative beliefs and complexes are stored in your subconscious mind and create a weakness, which will not let you succeed in life

You are the characterize, values and beliefs that are inherent only inside you

It is necessary to analyze all the restricting beliefs and complexes, which we acquired in childhood, from family, school and society

We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

People who have practiced occult religions for many years are being told that they don't know the first thing about their own religion and its beliefs and practices - and that a bunch of zealots from another religion posing as 'experts' (in a religion they despise/ fear/ oppose and who peddle slander and misinformation about occult religions), are more credible than they are.Non Seqitur. This does not follow.

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

Thoughts repeated over time, no matter how incorrect, become consolidated in our minds as beliefs because we’ve repeatedly affirmed them over and over again.

Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

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.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

Beliefs are many but truth is one.

Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease.

Escape from the cage of beliefs Spread the wings of love, Now fly in your sky of imagination.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don’t believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don’t know the ultimate reality.

What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become.

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.