Quotes About Belief

As people gradually stopped thinking of suffering as a threat, Buddhist cosmology, which had been constructed on the terror of suffering, steadily lost its connection to everyday reality. What had originally been a living belief turned into myth.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States. Especially the people who would know best: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by human activity, and I suspect the other 3 percent are being paid by the fossil fuel industry".

I know I'm sort of farting into the wind on this. But I hope you'll fart along with me. I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's

Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States.

Former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank once said, "I only voted once for someone who believes in 100 percent of what I believe. And that's when I voted for myself—the first time.

There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third. —John F. Kennedy

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

I actually thought and believed that the story would be compelling enough to cause a real sea change in the way Congress reacted to that issue. I thought they would be startled, too. And they weren't.

A true believer is a danger to humanity.

of God ever refusing anyone who came to Him seeking healing.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

People hear what we say but they see what we do. And seeing is believing.

When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.

A perception that exists in the mind is often interpreted as a universal truth.

In her experience, prefacing a statement with "To be honest" or "To tell you the truth" is a sure sign you're telling someone else what to believe—such as what was "good" for her, in this instance.

To know something, he argued, was not the same as to be certain beyond all doubt. And to believe something was definitely not the same as to know it.

I'm absolutely certain." Say something enough and it not only sounds true, it becomes memory.

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We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.

Love what you will never believe twice.

It is indeed the case that we philosophers work at night, after the day of the true becoming of a new truth. Yes, we hope, we believe that one day the 'bright obvious' will rise up motionless, in the stellar coldness of its ultimate form. It will be the last stage of philosophy, the absolute Idea, the complete revelation. But this does not come to pass.