Quotes About Beliefs

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A straightforward way of defining metaphysics is as the set of assumptions and practices present in the scientist's mind before he or she begins to do science.

All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units.

Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion—and this no known religion can tolerate. Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own.

Express your life as a demonstration of your highest beliefs, rather than as a denial of them.

Rightness" or "wrongness" is not an intrinsic condition, it is a subjective judgment in a personal value system. By your subjective judgments do you create your Self—by your personal values do you determine and demonstrate Who You Are.

To survive painful beliefs and feelings, we often mask them with anger. That way, we don't have to feel the shame behind it.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

It's tragic. The wounds that humans get are so strong that they're like robots operating on childhood programming. And even if they learn the truth about themselves in therapy and rehab, they still cling to their false beliefs and make choices that don't serve them—over and over again." He shakes his head at the cosmic absurdity of it all. "It takes hard, conscious, diligent work to genuinely change.

If you get any two evangelicals together, you will have at least three opinions! I

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

they don't want their thinking or attitudes changed. They want their values and beliefs endorsed, and they want government and society to reflect their values and beliefs, not yours.

he will see a golden age where each person can hold and defend the opinions that he wishes.