Quotes About Beliefs

The sense of self informs every relationship or decision we make as we move through life. And when children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed.

children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed.

Generational transmission of bias can be disrupted. We can stop passing hateful, destructive, and false beliefs to the next generation, but to do so we must be exceedingly intentional about all of the ways we influence our babies, toddlers, and young children. We have to think about the images they see in the magazines we read, the people we welcome into our homes, the ways we treat others who look different from us.

when children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed.

Implicit bias suggests that the bias is present but not "plainly expressed"—sometimes even unintentionally expressed. Racism, on the other hand, is an actual overt set of beliefs about the superiority of one race over others. In

A lifelong set of beliefs and behaviors can emerge when trauma is experienced at a young age. In one of the most serious manifestations, early sexual abuse can poison intimacy, even if the person has no actual recollection of specific instances of abuse.

The most destabilizing thing for anyone is to have their core beliefs challenged.

The most destabilizing thing for anyone is to have their core beliefs challenged. As psychologist Virginia Satir puts it, we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty. Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.

Here is the confusing part: James felt most comfortable when the world was in line with his worldview. Being rejected or treated poorly validated this view. The most destabilizing thing for anyone is to have their core beliefs challenged. As psychologist Virginia Satir puts it, we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty. Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.

Each of us carries around an unspoken set of assumptions that dictate how we expect our lives will unfold. These expectations come from all corners and influence us more than we admit.

The separation between us and them or between us and Nature that we so vividly experience in our reality is an illusion held in place by our beliefs.

It is not gene-directed hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies and our minds, and thus our lives . . . Oh ye of little belief!

to men and women alike your age just a number if you love the person for who they are what they are and respect there beliefs and accept them for who they are you love them in short love is all you need in a relationship and throw your age out the proverbial window.

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs.

What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters — specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.

Deneulin and Bano drive home the point that for these religious traditions "there is no separation between religion and development. Development is what adherents to a religion do because of who they are and what they believe in" (2009, 4-5).

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air! There's orthodoxy!

Phil's a slow-thinking sort, so I usually tied him up. He's one of the few communists I've ever been able to stand. They're like the abolitionists. Their cause may be just, but their personalities are repulsive. I don't really know whether they're right or not, and I don't care.

Our ethos is all that we currently hold to be true. It is what we act upon. It governs our manners, our business, and our politics.

I don't think you really belong here, Aviger. Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly. Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. I don't think any of us do. The brave belong where they decide. Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.

The constitutionally protected free speech that entitles every American to express their opinion has devolved into the notion that all opinions carry equal weight, simply because they are deeply held, and passionately expressed. And not just by some morbidly obese high school dropout proudly holding a misspelled sign, but by our elected officials.