Quotes About Beliefs

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

The false consensus effect refers to the tendency for people's own beliefs, values, and habits to bias their estimates of how widely such views and habits are shared by others.

People are less aware, however, of another source of divergent beliefs—the fact that the same issue or situation is construed quite differently by different people, even people with the same tastes, values, and orientations. As social psychologist Solomon Asch noted many years ago, differences of opinion between people are not always linked to differences in their "judgment of the object," but often reflect differences in the very "object of judgment" itself.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

For, as an evil poet once scribbled, superstition is the reservoir of all truths.)

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

The things we do or want without reasons, and without requiring reasons - the things that define what is a reason for us and what is not-are the starting points of our skepticism. 

The existentialists are not irrationalists in the sense that they deny the validity of logical argument and scientific reasoning. They simply question the ability of such reasoning to access the deep personal convictions that guide our lives.

There is nothing so absurd which some philosophers have not maintained.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.

Since different explanations, symbolism, and practices benefit different people, the existence of a variety of spiritual paths enables each person to choose what suits him or her best.

convictions and beliefs! .. what do they have to do with religion!

Anger is sweeping the country! Tea bags from sea to shining sea! Voters everywhere exploding from frustration!" "Why?" "Because the facts don't support their beliefs.

new-and-improved, guilt-free Reality Ultra-Lite: all your beliefs with none of the facts.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

There's no question that the political is personal.

CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

The main aim of conservative politicians is to get through to the next election without being noticed. Nothing is more embarrassing to them than a person who claims not only to share their beliefs but also to be inclined to put them into practice.

I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.

Atheists are just as obnoxious if not more obnoxious than zealots.

Especially for NRA members, it was obvious from the get-go that Obama believes he is above any constitutional restraints.

We are witnessing now, at the end of the century, the resurrection of ethnic and psychic passions, beliefs, ideas, and realities that seemed to have been long buried. The return of religious passion and nationalist fervor hides an ambiguous meaning: Is it the return of ghosts and demons that reason had exorcised, or is it the revelation of profound truths and realities that had been ignored by our proud intellectual constructs?