Quotes About Belief

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless.

Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect.

Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my fault, but I couldn't "BELIEVE" it! Then I was talking to my friend Kieran and he explained to me in a way that I could PERCEIVE that I was not at fault. No one else could ever do that before, though many tried. Many, many people had tried to tell me it wasn't my fault, but I was convinced it was my fault because I was trying to cheer up my dad.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

belief is the death of intelligence.

when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Reality is what you can get away with.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

STREETER: Let's just not argue. You can call me stupid, all right. I can call you a coward, all right. It's just I believe one thing, you believe something else. I think the world's got an outside chance, you believe it hasn't. That's all.

Don't be afraid to be wrong; be more afraid, not to do the right thing.

Normal science," Kuhn writes about the limitations of such scientific belief systems, "the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.

Carl Friedrich captured the distinction in 1935: "To be an American is an ideal, while to be a Frenchman is a fact.

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

what is more accessible in mind becomes more probable in action,

First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don't.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

you're much more persistent when you're confident in your abilities.

Abraham's willingness to plunge a dagger through the heart of his young son because God, without any explanation, ordered it. We learn in this story that the correctness of an action was not judged by such considerations as apparent senselessness, harmfulness, injustice, or usual moral standards, but by the mere command of a higher authority.

we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided.

The principle of social proof says so: The greater the number of people who find any idea correct, the more the idea will be correct.