Quotes About Belief

To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself. There

So this is a fundamental problem, being out of a loop that I don't even believe in.

We all need a solid belief system, a moral compass, to guide us when temptations crop up or peer pressure goes against what we know in our hearts is right.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

people like stories because they are good, not because they are true.

I don't think of people as queer or straight," the Doc said. "Not when you're as old as I. And I don't think God does either." "I didn't know you believed in God, Doc," Vance said.

Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Moral Skepticism is the idea that there is no such thing as objective moral truth.

cuando respondemos de modo visceral a un asunto, es tentador suponer que simplemente sabemos lo que debe ser la verdad, sin siquiera tener que considerar los argumentos opuestos.

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

I do not believe in demons," he murmured, "but only in my Father Who is in Heaven. Only in Him - and in my other father, who has climbed on this mountain before me.

[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do — the same physical methods, the same psychological methods — and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

If we consider the scale of the universe, we begin to see just how ridiculous belief in astrology can be.

Throw away the Tarot deck and ignore the astrology column.

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.

Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science.

I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.