Quotes About Beliefs

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

Matt Rosendale doesn't know what the hell is going on in Montana. That's why he doesn't talk about the issues he believes in, because he doesn't know them.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

It is not for me to enforce my morals on others.

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

It's OK to be a Black Republican. It's OK to stand by your morals and your values and your beliefs.

Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

I knew when I met Morgan that she was the perfect girl because she was in college, she was an athlete and we had the same morals and beliefs and I knew that she would be a great mom.

Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.

I'm such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and character motivations. And the way you evaluate functions is a really interesting way to look at stories and the way you act. I really believe it.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.

el éxito de los políticos no depende de que aprendan sus lecciones sobre historia o política, sino que depende mucho más de que tengan la capacidad de actuar en función de lo que es ampliamente creído por el público y los medios, lo que puede incluir teorías conspirativas o la creencia de que los precios más altos se deben al engaño o a la avaricia.

Once a person has made some sort of stable, symbolic connection between two things, the connection will influence his subsequent behavior and will generate its own 'proof.' This is why it is idle and foolish to try to 'refute' religious, political, and similar beliefs with empirical arguments about referents that are symbols to the believer but not to the non-believer.

Regardless of approach, the past holds something valuable for all of us. It is literally the root of who we are, physically through our actual ancestors and culturally in establishing the foundations for our current beliefs and practices in religious, social, domestic, and political arenas. The same ancients that we study were themselves drawn to their own pasts, often asking questions similar to the ones we pose today about our past.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded," wrote Philip Tetlock after the study had been completed. "It would be facile to reduce superforecasting to a bumper-sticker slogan, but if I had to, that would be it.

One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.

One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.

War Against Error" is a phrase originated to describe the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century efforts on the part of institutional religions to correct those whose beliefs were different. In a time when and place where state religion is the norm, apostasy is literally treason. Our modern world has "inherited a fully fledged apparatus of persecution and an intellectual tradition that justified killing in the name of God.