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Quotes About Beliefs

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
~ Victor Hugo
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
~ William James
The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.
~ John Dewey
The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
~ John Stuart Mill
Men and times change-but principles-never.
~ Grover Cleveland
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.
~ Albert Einstein
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
~ Epictetus
I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world have been founded by men and propagated by men.
~ Arjuna Ardagh
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
~ Bertrand Russell
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
~ David Lloyd George
If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.
~ Elton John
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
~ Napoleon Hill
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
~ Coretta Scott King
I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
~ Randall Terry
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
Opinions are a useless currency
~ Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
We all do stuff we think is right. Irrespective rules, drama or money.
~ Sarvesh Jain
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
~ Chuck D
Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
~ Zsuzsanna Budapest