Quotes About Belief

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period,

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way [...]

Ti dirò .... che cosa è il vero amore. E' devozione cieca, pronta ad umiliarsi, a sottomettersi completamente, a confidare e credere a dispetto di se stessi e del mondo intero, dando cuore e anima senza riserve a chi li infiamma...

Her zaman de?ilse bile ço?u zaman biliyordum ki onu sevmem delilikti, umutsuzluktu, mutsuzluktu, akl?n, mant???n, iç rahat?n?n, dirli?in tümüyle d???nda bir ?eydi. Onu sevmenin y?k?m oldu?unu biliyordum, gene de ilk ba?tan söyleyeyim, bunu bilmek sevgimi zerrece azaltm?yordu. Onun kusursuz bir melek oldu?una yürekten inansam, duygular?m? ancak bu kadar ba??bo? b?rakabilirdim...

That very popular trust in flat things coming round! Not in their being beaten round, or worked round, but in their "coming" round! As though a lunatic should trust in the world's "coming" triangular!

The most important thing in life is to stop saying, 'I wish' and start saying, 'I will'. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities

Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p.

It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.

Jak nauczy?o mnie do?wiadczenie, obraz, jaki zakochany tworzy sobie o przedmiocie swojej mi?o?ci, nie zawsze zgodny bywa z prawd?

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

We need to change our habits of thought, belief, and doing as well as change our systems. Each level reinforces the other: Our habits and beliefs form the psychic substructure of our system, which in turn induces in us the corresponding beliefs and habits.

The apparent objectivity of written words explains why people tend to believe what they read more than what they hear

We received it on a cultural level when the Age of Aquarius morphed into the age of Ronald Reagan,

Evidence and logic are tools we use to justify and flesh out our beliefs, but we are deceiving ourselves to think that they are the source of our beliefs. I will return to this idea, because it is crucial to understanding the process of belief change as well; and clearly, for our world to have a chance of surviving, a lot of beliefs are going to have to change.

To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.

To put it in more shocking terms, it doesn't matter if the skeptics are right or not, because the assumptions on which the debate is based are already enough to doom us to a dystopian future.

Stories, like all beings, have a life span. In their youth, their immune system is strong, but as time goes on they become increasingly unable to withstand the contrary evidence and experiences that pile up. In the end, I could no longer believe my own story. Who I had to be to maintain it—cynical, dismissive, patronizing, holding back from new experiences—became intolerable.

We must remember that purposive change is possible beyond what we direct ourselves. We must remember that this is not a fight we can win just by fighting.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.