Quotes About Belief

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic

Once beliefs are formed, the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which adds an emotional boost of further confidence in the beliefs and thereby accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive feedback loop of belief confirmation.

What is the probability that Yahweh is the one true god, and Amon Ra, Aphrodite, Apollo, Baal, Brahma, Ganesha, Isis, Mithra, Osiris, Shiva, Thor, Vishnu, Wotan, Zeus, and the other 986 gods are false gods? As skeptics like to say, everyone is an atheist about these gods; some of us just go one god further.

my hope is that whatever it is you decide to believe about whatever subject, you have thought through carefully each of those beliefs and at least tried to make sure that they are your beliefs and not those of your parents. It matters less to me what your specific beliefs are than that you have carefully arrived at your beliefs through reason and evidence and thoughtful reflection.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non -A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Oh, I beg your pardon; I do not know—" he stammered. "What to make of me," interrupted the other. "You would therefore do well to believe just what I tell you, or at least to avoid making conjectures of your own, which will lead to nothing.

My mind on this subject is quite made up, and, having the testimony of my own senses to rely upon, I prefer to abide by it.

It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better.

Design with skepticism, and you will achieve resilience.

Like Abraham Lincoln, I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

We're still in the Dark Ages. The scared and the superstitious savage still lurks behind the mask of civilization and he will remain there for untold generations to come.

Alas, but you do not recognize one thing, Monsieur le Docteur, one thing that you will find very difficult to comprehend. The twelfth century was quite different from today, different in a most special way. You see, the entire world believed in magic, and this affected things. It altered the world we perceived, everyone perceived, mortal and vampire alike. You will not be able to accept this, but it altered the very laws of physics. Magic was a little more real.

The pattern that began to take shape in the last chapter continues, and its message becomes increasingly clear—the deeper and more emotionally charged our beliefs, the greater the changes we can make in both our bodies and reality itself.

?nançs?zl?klar?m?z? kesip atarak içimizdeki iyile?tirici güce ula?abilecek kadar ?ansl? olabilirsek, tümörleri bir gece içinde eriyip gitmesine neden olabiliriz.

hayalet öykülerinin teorilerinden birisi de, bunlar?n ölmü? bireylerin ruhlar? oldu?u yolundad?r, ancak tüm hayaletler insan de?ildir.Kimilerinin de cans?z nesnelerin hayaletlerini görmekte oldu?u hakk?nda say?s?z kay?t vard?r ve bu da, böylesi görünümlerin bedenden ayr?lm?? ruhlar oldu?u inanc?n? yalanlamaktad?r.

Ki?i hastal??? yaratma gücüne sahip ise, bu ayn? zamanda iyile?tirme gücüne de sahip oldu?unun göstergesidir.

Josephson believes Bohm's implicate order may someday even lead to the inclusion of God or Mind within the framework of science, an idea Josephson supports.

Uzun vadede illizyonlara ba?l? kalmak, gerçek olgularla yüzle?mekten çok daha tehlikelidir. Bohm

ölüm durumunun ki?inin ?uurunun bir holografik gerçeklik düzeyinden di?erine geçmesinden ba?ka bir ?ey olmad???na inanmaktad?r.

i swear to God, that was the question. Sometimes, I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel or more likely a demon assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. well, today it got an A plus