Quotes About Beliefs

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Every communication is rhetorical because it uses some technique to affect the beliefs, actions, or emotions of an audience.

That life wouldn't get any easier as I got older. If anything, it would only get harder as I grew up to the realization, as he apparently had, that all our beliefs were built on a flimsy scaffolding of stories, and that happiness was nothing but a wish and love was only a lie.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.

Americans] correctly believe that its political arrangements are universal truths, and the understanding of the human condition that those arrangements reflect are superior to other nations' arrangements.

The idea that emerged from both the New Deal and World War II was that a state managed by experts dedicated to solutions without an ideology would do for the country what it did for the war: it would breed success. But of course, this became a principle, the principle became a belief, and the belief became an ideology. The ideology created a class who felt entitled to govern and who were believed to be suitable to govern. It

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.

Ye see, Rab, it's due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our soul is located anywhere in our bodies, it's up our arses. That's where it all goes. It makes sense. That's why we're obsessed with anal jokes, anal sex, anal hobbies... the arsehole – not the brain, not space – is the last frontier. That's what makes us revolutionaries.

Erezia unei genera?ii este ortodoxia genera?iei urm?toare.

Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental discruption results. Mild cases - hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases - madness and suicide.

Century or another. Usually, the dangerous beliefs are those which concentrate particularly in the ruling classes of an era; the classes that have most contact with us and, at the same time, carry the important weight of what is called public opinion." Finge paused as though he expected Harlan to offer some comment or ask some question. Harlan did neither. Finge continued. "Ever since the Reality Change 433–486, Serial Number

Very well. So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

And as long as it is so believed, Procurator, and as long as we of Earth are treated as pariahs, you are going to find in us the characteristics to which you object.

Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental disruption results. Mild cases – hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases – madness and suicide.

Ar refuza s? ne asculte. ?i È™tii de ce? Pentru c? au anumite idei fixe cu privire la trecut. Orice schimbare e o blasfemie în ochii lor, chiar dac? e adev?rul-adev?rat. Nu vor adev?rul; îÈ™i vor doar tradiÈ›iile lor.

Las creencias propias se llaman religión, las de los demás se llaman superstición

Las creencias propias se llaman religión, las de los demás se llaman superstición, lo nuestro es idioma, lo que hablan los demás son dialectos, y lo que hacen los blancos se llama arte, y lo que hacen las demás razas es artesanía.

I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.