Quotes About Belief

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don't. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

Ludzie! ka?dy z was móg?by, samotny, wi?ziony, My?l? i wiar? zwala? i pod?wiga? trony.

Kto nie dotkn?? ziemi ni razu, Ten nigdy nie mo?e by? w niebie.

Bo s?uchajmy i zwa?my u siebie, ?e wed?ug bo?ego rozkazu: Kto za ?ycia cho? raz by? w niebie, Ten po ?mierci nie trafi od razu.

Czucie i wiara silniej mówi do mnie Ni? m?drca szkie?ko i oko.

We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out.

When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.

On one occasion she (Milner) said to me 'Winnicott really believed, you know, that playing was the only real reality … he thought play, all creativity was sheer magic … that if people can play, anything can happen'. So, I said to her, 'What's wrong with thinking playing is reality, that creativity is magic?' And she said, 'It meant that he believed he could help anyone and everyone, that he was magic because he could play'.

No amount of "evidence" or research will convince the unamused that a joke is funny.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Above the desk there was this framed picture of Jesus. He was reaching his hand out and making this face like he was about to get shot.

All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Our habits of thought are stronger than strait-waistcoats. We walk about with habit-coloured spectacles before our eyes, and see everything as we are accustomed to see it.' He

they believed Africans were more industrious and less dangerous than enslaved people born into the revolutionary world of the Americas.

known in the North as the "slave power." Slaveowners in the Deep South believed in the need for slavery and in their own benevolence as masters.

This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

Warren Buffett puts it all rather well: "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

Most cultures agree that killing other people is forbidden, and it is even enshrined in the Abrahamic commandments, though it seems this is interpreted as more of a guideline than a rule, given the enthusiasm with which the disciples of Christ and Muhammad have engaged with the snuffing out of other people's light.

However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist.

have fallen into the tempting trap of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

that states have often passed laws against fortune-tellers and prophets of doom.

Yo, por mi parte, no pienso tan austeramente como usted; me limito a actuar de la misma manera en que usted piensa.

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.

The relationship of compositional history to religious faith is not a simple one. If Moses is the human author of Genesis, nothing ensures that God is its ultimate Author. If J, E, P, and various equally anonymous sources and redactors are its human authors, nothing ensures that God is not its ultimate Author.