Quotes on Beliefs

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Author: James Baldwin

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Author: Fidel Castro

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

Author: Frank Clark

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Author: Frank Clark

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

Author: Albert Claude

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Author: Mario Cuomo

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Author: Guy Debord

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Author: Marlene Dietrich

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

Author: Shannen Doherty

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Author: Albert Ellis

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Author: Henry Ellis

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.

Author: Paul Gillmor

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Author: Asa Gray

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Author: George Grosz

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Author: Lafcadio Hearn

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Author: Robert Heinlein

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

Author: Chad Hugo

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Author: Thomas Huxley

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Author: John Kennedy

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

Author: Horst Koehler

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Author: David Lawrence

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

Author: Amy Lee

There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.

Author: Keith Lehrer

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Author: Walter Lippmann

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

Author: Mark Messier

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

Author: Mark Messier

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Author: Henry Miller

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Author: Tony Robbins

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Author: Tony Robbins

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

Author: Pat Robertson

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

Author: James Robinson

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Author: Richard Rorty

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

Author: Isabella Rossellini

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Author: Bertrand Russell

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Author: David Seabury

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Author: Pete Seeger

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Author: Aaron Siskind

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

Author: Frederick Soddy

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

Author: Mary Steenburgen

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Author: Henry Thoreau

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Author: James Thurber

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

Author: Christy Turlington

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Author: Miguel Unamuno

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

Author: Robert Vaughn

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

Author: Rowan Williams

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Author: Shirley Williams

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

Author: Wendell Willkie

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Author: E. Wilson

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Author: Thomas Wolfe

Our beliefs are the compass that guides our decisions and actions in life.

Author: Samantha Johnson

Our beliefs shape our existence, but our actions define it.

Author: Maya Summers