Quotes About Belief

Broken Minds, The easiest way to program a foolish mind is to tell them something that they know nothing about and proceed to make them believe it without doing any research for themselves, "Broken Minds" -MillYentei

God got me steppin' different, I'm not under an obligation to do something the same way the crowd is moving. -MillYentei

Those haters stay mad because they can't see you doing bad, hey! If you hate me, believe me, I hate you from the bottom of my heart, I honestly mean that. -MillYentei

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 'religion' of our time.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Those who believe in karma do not blame. They do not judge. They accept that humans live in a sea of consequences, over which there is limited control. So they accept every moment as it is supposed to be. They act without expectation.

Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and is willing to find out what they communicate.

Within the infinite myths lies the eternal truth

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome

Religious or secular, all myths make profound sense to one group of people. Not to everyone. They cannot be rationalized beyond a point. In the final analysis, you either accept them or you don't.

Myth is truth which is subjective, intuitive, cultural and grounded in faith.

One can argue, why not simply give the solution; why go through the trouble of creating a puzzle? Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken. And

B.R. Ambedkar believed the tale was not so much about Ram's character as it was about the unsustainability of the caste system that needed violence for its enforcement.

It's the Indian headshake. It means you are probably right, or probably wrong. Who knows? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra a hundred, you and I only two.

Surrender unconditionally, even in the absence of evidence, to the truth of the cosmos.

The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing. Belief in one life makes us want to change the world, control it or resign to the way things are. Belief in rebirth enables us to appreciate all three possibilities, without clinging to any.

All the things that we value—justice, equality, free speech, human rights—are actually concepts churned out of imagination, just like ideas such as God, heaven, hell, rebirth and immortality. We may classify these ideas as secular or religious, rational or supernatural, value one over the other, but they are essentially creations of humans, by humans, for humans. They are artificial constructions, not natural phenomena. They have no independent existence outside humans.

Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.

Anything is possible if you can give shape to limitless spirit without the limitations of matter,' said Brahma.

Certainty comes as you move away from facts.