Quotes About Belief

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

Although historians often describe Akhenaten as a monotheist, that wasn't exactly right; he believed other gods existed. They just didn't hold a candle to Aten. Aten was something special, something fundamental to the nature of reality itself. This belief in the supremacy of one god over other gods is generally called henotheism

One of the symptoms of the approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important & that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. Bertrand Russell

As one Saudi professor sternly tells his co-religionists, "Only the writings of a practising Muslim are worthy of our attention.

History, unlike faith, cannot be built upon foundations of sand.

The logical flaws and inconsistencies that riddled the tale, far from making him doubt its veracity finally convinced him that it might indeed be true; for life is like that.

Once, when I was young, I believed in democracy. When I was a little older, I believed in oligarchy, government by the enlightened few; after that, in monarchy, the rule of the philosopher-king. Now I believe only in drainage, public sanitation and clean water.

humanity generally gets the Gods it deserves.

We don't ask that question. Why not? If I tell you the truth, you would not believe me. If I lie, you would believe me.

Great groups believe they are on a mission from God. Beyond mere financial success, they genuinely believe they will make the world a better place.

creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

What matters most in the end, though, is this: your belief in your capacity to create positive change and the courage to take action.

When you open your mind to the possibility that your capabilities are unlimited and unknown, you already have your running shoes on and are ready to race forward.

Start with a growth mindset, the deep-seated belief that your true potential is still unknown. That you are not limited to only what you have been able to do before.

Creative confidence is like a muscle—it can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience.

Individuals who come to believe that they can effect change are more likely to accomplish what they set out to do. Bandura calls that conviction "self-efficacy." People with self-efficacy set their sights higher, try harder, persevere longer, and show more resilience in the face of failure.

We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don't.

No, it's just like when you're dead and you try to remember being alive, it'll be like thinking of winter on the hottest day of the year. You'll know it's true, but you won't really believe it.

And of course they used her like a disposable object, without regret or apology, because that's what privilege is—the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

It was one thing to have a professor tell you that gender was socially constructed, and another to hear it from a person who had actually done construction work.

We don't smoke for enjoyment. We smoke to proclaim our faith.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.