Beliefs Quotes

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical

~ Ki Longfellow

I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.

~ Kevin Breel

Shared beliefs and values form the heart of every successful relationship and ultimately determine its success.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

...the world would be a better place if we all believed whatever we wished but behaved towards each other as if there was no external deity to sort out our own problems...If you happened to hold the finest theological beliefs there are and if you understand all the best and most detailed divine precepts and commandments but in your daily life you are actually an angry, shouting inhumane swine,then that's the way you will be remembered. Believing is all very well, but behaving is what you are judged by and remembered for.

~ Buckman

When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being in the wilderness for a while, you may come around to feeling sociable. Maybe you could try living in a community of “like-minded” social deviants. However, they had better be so alike that they are clones of one another or the day will come when someone steps over the line and factions begin to teem. Our brains will always discriminate—that is their nature. They fix on superficial differences we spy in one another, redundantly speaking, since all differences among us are superficial.

~ Thomas Ligotti

The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very good story. For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous - and it is also essential.

~ Daniel Kahneman

You studied and did your duty, believed and did what you were told with a promise of a life that is already here. Life is just over those hills. You were told you were on a journey; when all along your sorry ass was sitting inside that car analyzing every belief known to man. Your path will reveal the truth about you. Nobody cares what you believe; they care about who you are.

~ Rj Blizzard

Edward, maybe you're seeking the wrong answer? You are asking the wrong question. It's not what you believe, but how you choose to believe. Everyone believes something. Even nothing is something.

~ Rj Blizzard

If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn’t infringe on anyone’s freedom, it’s their choice to make.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

We asked volunteers to report their own beliefs, God's beliefs, and the average American's beliefs on a wide variety of social issues while they were lying on their backs in an fMRI scanner. We found some clear distinctions. Major differences in neural activity emerged when people reasoned about their own beliefs and the average American's beliefs. We found the very same pattern of differences when people reasoned about God's beliefs versus the average American's beliefs. But the most amazing result of all was that we could not tell the difference in overall neural activity between people reasoning about their own beliefs versus God's beliefs. In the scanner, reasoning about God's beliefs looked the same as reasoning about one's own beliefs.

~ Nicolas Epley

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!

~ Terry Pratchett

It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.

~ George Orwell

Making and Working on my Beliefs.

~ Amableati

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Says you and your family. Sooner or later you’re gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn’t mean it is. Not at all.

~ Angela Flournoy

All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don’t attach with the things, that doesn’t serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.

~ Roshan Sharma

Whatever you believe is true, is.

~ Stan Beecham

When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things—that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way.

~ Jodi Picoult

A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss.

~ Abhijit Naskar

At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.

~ P.c. Cast

Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.

~ Hina Hashmi

That which can happen in your future is far better than whatever happened in your past.

~ Maddy Malhotra

Secrets are gold and we are the miners.

~ Nelo Igboejesi

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

~ Marjane Satrapi

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

~ Louis C.k.

When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others’ heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.

~ Carla L. Rueckert

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

~ Libba Bray

Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.

~ Patty Houser

I'll always be here if you need me. I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.

~ Erin Hunter

On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.

~ Patty Houser

The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.

~ W.p. Kinsella

When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Our behaviors reflect what we believe. If we want to change our behavior, we have to change our beliefs.

~ Patty Houser

People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because they don't share your God is beyond barbaric. The fact that there are people in our own country who seem to tolerate that, while being intolerant of a Christian's biblical stance regarding gay marriage, makes me want to go to leave the United States and go to a more sensible place, like Texas.

~ Greg Gutfeld

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

~ Hyrum W. Smith

Many Christians never let the Bible get in the way of their believing, but depend on their logic, tradition, or experience to formulate beliefs.

~ Paul Silway

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

~ Joe Hill

Nothing is as powerful as one's beliefs.

~ Patty Houser

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

~ Mike Carey