Quotes About Beliefs

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

It is a necessary condition of rationality that a man shall formulate his beliefs in such a way that it is clear what evidence would be evidence against them and that he shall lay himself open to criticism and refutation ... But to foreclose on tolerance is precisely to cut oneself off from such criticism and refutation. It is gravely to endanger one's own rationality by not admitting one's own fallibility.

To say that a belief is rational is to talk about how it stands in relation to other beliefs

The individual' is the name of a piece of social fabrication, of a social role created in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in order to abstract human beings from certain aspects of their beliefs and circumstances.

I think politics are a very personal thing.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.

That's one of my issues with the pharmaceutical industry - they believe pharmacy is a panacea for absolutely everything.

Nobody is more conservative in the Congress and the House than Phil Gingrey.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

I don't believe in diet pills. I don't want my heart to race and pop out of my chest.

Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.

Respect for the individual is one of our core beliefs at Walmart.

I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

The global warming hysterics don't just offer opinions and beliefs about greenhouse gases and the like. These are people who speak as if they belong to a cult.