Quotes About Beliefs

I am a believer in the rights of the unborn and the goodness of every life, and I have promised that, as governor, I will champion those values.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Culture is coded wisdom

give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers

We're an odd match. Imagine Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson; imagine night and day. George has built nuclear reactors and believes in them fiercely. We stay away from this and other subjects the way I'd stay away from Three Mile Island. After all, I have plenty of friends who share my most impassioned opinions; we can have an orgy of agreement any day at the natural foods restaurant, over a sprout sandwich. But he's the one out here helping.

The Unconvincibles are the people who are not amenable to reason of any sort. Their minds are not only closed, but bolted and hermetically sealed. In most cases , their beliefs congealed at an early age; by the time they left their teens, they were encased in a rigid framework of thought and feeling, which no evidence or argument can penetrate.

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.

Our personal inner songs are telepathic expressions of energy that send out signals about our beliefs and expectations of reality.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

As the name implies, acquired ignorance is not intrinsic but rather comes about due to the influence of adopted beliefs and the culture we are raised in.

a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

As recently as the twentieth century, some cultures retained religious prohibitions asserting the "uncleanliness" of believers eating at the same table as musicians.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.