We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
~ Jimmy Carter
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.
~ James D. Watson
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
~ E. O. Wilson
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
~ Richard Dawkins
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
~ John Dewey
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
~ George Orwell
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
~ James Baldwin
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
~ Hans Eysenck
The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
~ Thomas Wolfe
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
~ John Stuart Mill
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
