Quotes and Sayings About Belief

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Belief #Trouble #Capacity

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
-- A. E. Housman

#Poison #Body #Belief

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Belief #Boring

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
-- A.J. Ayer

#Confused #Atheism #Belief

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.
-- A.S.A. Harrison

#Psych #Desire #Belief

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
-- Aaron Hill

#Belief #Moral #Birth

Your belief system saturates the space around you.
-- Aaron Huey

#Space #Belief #Belief Systems

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
-- Abba Eban

#Believe #People #Belief

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
-- Abigail Breslin

#Fans #Belief #Horror

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Might #Belief #Duty

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Laughing #Digestion #Belief

All money is a matter of belief.
-- Adam Smith

#Believe #Matter #Belief

There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.
-- Adi Da

#Reality #Belief #Disappear

I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Struggle #Lasts #Belief

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
-- Adyashanti

#Awakening #Belief #Barriers

The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
-- Adyashanti

#Practice #Way #Belief

Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
-- Ahmet Necdet Sezer

#Important #Guarantees #Belief

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
-- Aimee Mullins

#Thinking #Weakness #Belief

It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.
-- Al Gore

#Numbers #Abortion #Belief

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
-- Al Seckel

#Libertarian #Belief #Global Warming

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
-- Alan Ball

#Buddhist #Belief

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
-- Alan Dean Foster

#Reality #Statistics #Belief

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.
-- Alan I. Leshner

#Mean #Principles #Belief

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
-- Alan Kay

#Reality #Belief #Problem

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
-- Alan Paton

#Fear #Belief #Power Of Love

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
-- Alan Watts

#Attitude #Opposites #Belief

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.
-- Alana Stewart

#Strong #Thinking #Belief

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Doe #Belief

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Belief #Action

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
-- Albert Bandura

#People #Profound #Belief