Quotes About Belief

Las cosas difíciles parecen posibles en cuanto se las piensa un poco, pero se hacen imposibles si se las piensa de más.

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión.

Uma pessoa nunca sabe se o que lhe dizem é verdade, nunca há a certeza de nada que não venha de nós mesmos.

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión. Con

Los hechos de guerra suenan pueriles en los tiempos de relativa paz, y que algo haya ocurrido no es suficiente para admitir su relato, no basta con que sea cierto para resultar plausible. La verdad se vuelve inverosímil a veces con el paso del tiempo; se aleja, y entonces parece fábula, o ya no más la verdad.

La gente adopta una fe y se pone muy seria, después solemne. Empieza a creerse cuanto viene amparado o envuelto por esa fe, y entonces se vuelve estúpida.

Basta con introducir un poco de verdad en la mentira para que ésta no sólo resulte creíble, sino irrefutable.

Besides, faith is a fickle, fragile thing: it stumbles, recovers, grows stronger, cracks. And is lost. Belief can never be trusted.

la costumbre obra milagros y confiere rango de necesidad a lo antojadizo y superfluo.

É curioso como o pensamento mergulha no inverosímil, como se permite fazê-lo momentaneamente, como imagina ou se torna supersticioso para descansar um pouco ou encontrar alívio, como é capaz de negar os factos e fazer o tempo retroceder, nem que seja um instante. Como se parece com o sonho.

M?su p?rliec?bas ir gaistošas un trauslas, pat t?s, ko uzskat?m par visstingr?kaj?m. T?pat ir ar m?su j?t?m. Mums nevajadz?tu sev uztic?ties.

think men will change their mind or their beliefs, that they will gradually discover that they can't do without us, that we will be the exception in their lives or the visitors who end up staying, that they will eventually grow tired of those other invisible women whose existence we begin to doubt or whom we prefer to think do not exist, the more we see of the men and the more we love them despite ourselves; that we will be the chosen

People believe what they want to believe, and that's why it's only logical-and so easy-that everything should have its time to be believed

Nada peor que buscar el sentido o creer que lo hay. O sí lo habría, aún peor: creer que el sentido de algo, aunque sea del detalle más nimio, dependerá de nosotros o de nuestras acciones, de nuestro propósito o nuestra función, creer que hay voluntad, que hay destino, e incluso una trabajosa combinación de ambos.

satan is a christian creation and you can keep him, thank you!

Weick urges leaders to continually discredit much of what the think they know - to doubt, argue, contradict, disbelieve, counter, challenge, question, vacillate, and even act hypocritically.

Ninety-three percent of American motorists believe they are better-than-average drivers. In a 2007 BusinessWeek poll, 90 percent of the managers surveyed believed their performance in the workplace to be in the top 10 percent.4

The Truth Assumption As we argue vociferously for our view, we often fail to question one crucial assumption upon which our whole stance in the conversation is built: I am right, you are wrong. This simple assumption causes endless grief.

Our colleague Roger Fisher captured this phenomenon in a wry reflection on his days as a litigator : "I sometimes failed to persuade the court that I was right, but I never failed to persuade myself!

As we argue vociferously for our view, we often fail to question one crucial assumption upon which our whole stance in the conversation is built: I am right, you are wrong. This simple assumption causes endless grief.

And it is the bullwhip of negative judgment—from ourselves or others—that produces much of our anxiety around feedback. Surprisingly, reassurance—"You can do this" and "I believe in you"—also falls into the category of additional judgments, but on the positive side.

I am not an advocate for home education, but for Christian home education. You can train a child to think like a Greek, a pagan and an evolutionist in the home, and while under the care of parents, and the results may be little different from government school indoctrination.

A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee (Psalm 91:7).

Learning the lessons of life can be so simple if you believe in immortality.