Beliefs Quotes

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

~ Thomas Gilovich

Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do.

~ Thomas Gilovich

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

~ Thomas Gilovich

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be an irresistible product of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

~ Thomas Gilovich

we believe certain things because they ought to be true.

~ Thomas Gilovich

Inside accounts of Presidential advisory groups make it clear that the failure to express dissent can have direct, immediate, and severe consequences...Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do. Bolstered by such a false sense of social support, our beliefs strike us as more resistant to subsequent logical and empirical challenge.

~ Thomas Gilovich

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

~ E.m. Forster

Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.

~ Russell Kyle

Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...

~ Bruce H. Lipton

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

~ Bruce H. Lipton

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.

~ Neil Gaiman

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

~ Dean Koontz

As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life. pg.404

~ Hilary Mantel

Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!

~ Maddy Malhotra

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

~ Oscar Wilde

Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you happy. Only the release from these false beliefs can bring you true happiness and lasting peace.

~ David Hoffmeister

All belief is the least reliable form of knowing...Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it's impossible to put into words.

~ Luke Rhinehart

For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.

~ M. Scott Peck

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

~ Criss Jami

... anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

~ Jack Campbell

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If you are noticing your desires are not coming to fruition, it is time to dive into the unconscious world to discover what other belief may be stronger.

~ Miranda J. Barrett

You don’t always have to follow the rules. You have to stand for what you believe.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do not believe the road signs. There is no one way. If it's your truth then it's the right way.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

~ Jay Lake

Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

~ Chris Prentiss

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

~ Gyalwa Dokhampa

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.

~ Marcel Proust

Accept what makes you happy and pay no attention to fearful beliefs no matter who they come from.

~ Raphael Zernoff

In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Are your consistent beliefs serving you or are they holding you back?

~ Mike Basevic

Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of them will never be. Question your beliefs. Choose what promotes love and unity.

~ Raphael Zernoff

If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

~ Jim Al-Khalili

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

~ Julian Houston

I've come to believe that we, as people, only tend to remember only certain of what we hear or read just for that reason. Most of what we retain coincide with our personal beliefs and feelings and the rest, we throw away into the back of our minds where we keep it or forget it entirely.

~ Celia Mcmahon

Nobody has ever been and most certainly, never would be able to cut the wings of beliefs! Instead, they are nurtured for the needed flight that they give to our otherwise inert lives…

~ Trishala D. Shah

All things are within the Circle. That is the very Center of what we believe. If all things are not enclosed, then there is no Circle.

~ Tanya Huff