Quotes About Belief

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.

Otra faceta destructiva de la psicología humana es que, cuando alguien se ha hecho una idea de algo, aceptará la evidencia que refuerce su opinión y rechazará la que la contradiga.

keep faith in "the advantages to be expected from perseverance…so long as any chance for success may remain.

A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods.

Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.

Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more god and become atheism.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

If that was the case, I had to accept it. I had to trust my mother's words: God will get you out in His time.

Baby, be quiet! You're not in control anymore. God is in control. And God is going to get you out in His own time." The power of her words knocked me back. What did my mother just tell me?

They called us back into the room and told us their decision. They believed that I had changed and my record indicated I'd been a model inmate. They felt I was no longer a safety risk to society

There can be no possible belief that these people were inspired by any consuming zeal to vindicate God's law against miscegenationists of the most practical sort. The woman was a willing partner in the victim's guilt, and being of the "superior" race must naturally have been more guilty.

La mente dell'uomo è contorta e in genere lo spinge a credere sempre alla peggiore delle ipotesi

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?