Quotes About Beliefs

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. --"The Crusade of Indignation," in Nation (New York, 7 July 1956; repr. in The Price of the Ticket, 1985)     It

The point is not what core values you have, but that you have core values at all, that you know what they are, that you build them explicitly into the organization, and that you preserve them over time.

vision is composed of three basic parts: core values and beliefs, purpose, and mission.

Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

Under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, it is an offence to stir up hatred towards religious and racial groups. 'Stirring up hatred' is an expression both loaded and undefined. Do I stir up hatred towards a religious group by criticising its beliefs in outspoken terms?

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.

I serve on a lot of charitable boards - the areas of mental health parity, services for those that are underserved, and certainly children's rights are things that I believe in very, very strongly.

I would prefer a society where we don't have to explain ourselves. But I get that many people just need those labels to understand it. And if I make my situation or beliefs more understandable by putting labels on it, I'm happy to do it.

There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

There's very little proof that Obama or anyone in his administration - particularly Hillary Clinton - truly understands or believes the tenets in the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. If they did, they would know that they are running a federal government in direct contradiction to both of those sacred documents.

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

Your words reveal your wants but your actions reveal your expectations.

I don't do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs.