Quotes About Belief

Perdida ya toda esperanza de alcanzar una vida mejor en este mundo, la gente fue depositando cada vez más sus esperanzas en la vida del más allá, y la idea de obtener recompensas en el cielo la ayudó a soportar la falta de pimienta en esta tierra.

Probability does not refer to the system as such (the dice, the newspaper editor, the decaying atom, tomorrow's weather), but to the knowledge that I have about this system.

When Lemaître defends the idea that the universe is expanding, and Einstein does not believe it, one of the two is wrong; the other, right. All of Einstein's results, his fame, his influence on the scientific world, his immense authority, count for nothing. The observations prove him wrong, and it's game over. An obscure Belgian priest is right. It is for this reason that scientific thinking has power.

Michele has left this strange world a little before me. This means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction made between past, present and future is nothing more than a persistent, stubborn illusion.

I may not know something with certainty, but I can still assign a lesser or greater degree of probability to something.

Albert Einstein, yak?n dostu ?talyan Michele Besso öldü?ünde onun k?z karde?ine dokunakl? bir mektu yazm??t?: "Michele bu garip dünyadan benden biraz önce ayr?ld?. Bunun hiçbir anlam? yok. Bizim gibi fizi?e inanan insanlar, geçmi?, ?imdi ve gelecek aras?ndaki ayr?m?n sürüp giden inatç? bir yan?lsamadan ba?ka bir ?ey olmad???n? bilir.

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known.

Only someone in his twenties can take such delirious propositions seriously. You have to be a twentysomething to believe that they can be turned into a theory of the world.

This ideology failed because it was a profoundly inauthentic prescription: it is humanly impossible to genuinely respect beliefs no matter how irrational, immoral, or absurd. The resulting culture was emotionally frozen and often did not lead to fruitful discussion between worldviews in general, and between secularism and religion in particular.

Testimonials are enough to convince people for now —Alex Chiu

When you are fully passionate about your market, your products and your services, your heart, belief in yourself, and your enthusiasm will naturally command higher prices, and people will happily pay more to be around your energy.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.

The God of this planet was not worth the religion.

he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?

Everything is possible and everything is easy, if you put your mind to it.

People have always said, "Life sucks, and then you die," but Wesley never wanted to believe that. He wanted to believe that life was what you made it. He wanted to believe that anything was possible. But reality was a bitch that he was only beginning to understand.

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

He squeezed his eyes shut and sent up a silent prayer.

When you look back, recap this whole season it's just some detail-oriented things that we kind of got to fix. We're right there. I believe we're right as a team, as a unit, the guys we have on this team, we're right there. I'm a big believer in that. I'm very confident.

I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

I drink the darkness of disbelief.

My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.

The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is simple. It is rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now.