Quotes About Beliefs

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

We ultimately don't get what we want, we get what we are.

You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them