Quotes About Beliefs

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something.

Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.

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

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.

Faith, family, and fitness - that's the order I try to keep things in.

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles.

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of TV shows. People don't want to hear from me.

I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want.

My faith is very personal. It's not something that I want to project on other people.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)