Quotes About Belief

Not only that, thoughts, actions, and words have the power to draw to themselves whatever elements are necessary to become concrete reality.

The destruction of nature will lead to the destruction of the human race, but many people seem to be convinced that even if humans should disappear, they will be brought to life again by the hand of their god. This idea, however, is nothing more than fantasy. The human race will not be born again. When the people on the earth have died out, there will be no God or Buddha to rescue them.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Masashi Kishimoto

For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)

Believe it!!!" Naruto yelled.

When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.

Y como Séneca sigue diciéndole cada vez que recurre a él: «No sé si realizaré progresos; pero prefiero la falta de éxito a la falta de fe».[14]

foundation of morality is to ... give up pretending to believe that or which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about this beyond the possibilities of knowledge." So wrote Thomas Henry Huxley, who thought-in the tradition of writers and philosophers like David Hume and Thomas Paine-that we have a moral duty to distinguish sense from nonsense.

British astronomer royal Richard Woolley, who in 1956 said, "All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really."10 Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the earth just five years later.

For Christians, the term "faith" designates not a formal assent to a belief, but rather an act of trust and commitment to a way of envisioning our world, and exploring its implications for thought and action.

In a medical context, such an etiology can mean that some Hindus would welcome suffering rather than try to alleviate it. Palliative care, for example, may not be desirable if the Hindu believes that her suffering is the expression and manifestation of p?pa (demeritorious) karma. A Hindu may believe that relieving suffering may merely delay the manifestation of p?pa karma. The relief, then, would only be temporary and may even incur more p?pa and prolong or intensify the inescapable.

Broadly speaking, all of the philosophical and religious schools extant in India, other than the Charvaka (materialist skeptic) and Abrahamic ones, shared a belief in the mechanism of karma, that one's actions in earlier lives affected both one's rebirth as well as the events that are to occur in one's future lives.

Your confidence lies not in the outcome,

Jains, in contrast, believe that karma is a physical particle that floats about and is attracted to sentient beings, depending on their actions and their intentions.