Quotes About Beliefs

What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

Hemos de permitir, pues, tan ligeramente que los niños escuchen cualesquiera mitos, forjados por el primero que llegue, y que den cabida en su espíritu a ideas generalmente opuestas a las que creemos necesario que tengan inculcadas al llegar a mayores? -No debemos permitirlo en modo alguno.

A molti, individui o popoli, può accadere di ritenere, piú o meno consapevolmente, che «ogni straniero è nemico». Per lo piú questa convinzione giace in fondo agli animi come una infezione latente; si manifesta solo in atti saltuari e incoordinati, e non sta all'origine di un sistema di pensiero. Ma quando questo avviene, quando il dogma inespresso diventa premessa maggiore di un sillogismo, allora, al termine della catena, sta il Lager.

Many believers use truth as a license to righteously diminish others' reputations.

The genius of most men lay in finding reasons after their actions. The heart was ever self-serving, especially when the beliefs served involved sacrifice.

Beliefs were the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him, and by the way, Tal, I believe the Palestinians should have their own state.

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. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)

When feverish politics and demented ideology entwine, those who are not well anchored to the beliefs that allow a civil society can be swept away, becoming part of the storm of madness that lays waste to everything.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

no one here ever took the work of Karl Marx or Friedrich Nietzsche or Sigmund Freud seriously. So there had been no Lenin, no Soviet Union, no communism or fascism; and two hundred million people who, elsewhere, had been killed by those regimes, had not been killed here.

Podemos caer en el amor: nunca es demasiado tarde. ¿Y por qué, entonces, dormimos odiando? Las creencias no requieren puntos suspensivos para ver que el Infierno es invención nuestra. Hacemos que el Infierno sea de verdad: alimentamos sus fuegos. Y en sus llamas mueren nuestra esperanzas. El Cielo, también, es simplemente una creación nuestra. Podemos otorgarnos nuestra propia salvación. Todo lo que se requiere es imaginación.

We were very different people outwardly but we shared the same core values and beliefs.

Our truest opinions are not those we never change, but those to which we most often return.

Expecting to get what we want is immaturity, not optimism, and adults cannot long sustain happiness while holding immature beliefs.

Judaism has consisted of four components: God,Torah, Israel, and Chosenness; that is, the God introduced by the Jews, Jewish laws, Jewish peoplehood, and the belief that the Jews are God's chosen people. Jews' allegiance to any of these components has been a major source of antisemitism because it not only rendered the Jew an outsider, but more important, it has often been regarded by non-Jews as challenging

Similarly, forcing your beliefs onto someone else damages your relationship. The damage may not be easy to spot at first, like tiny cracks in a wooden wheel, but it's just a matter of time before the wheel splits apart.

I believe that most of us have false beliefs about our own nature, and our identity over time, and that, when we see the truth, we ought to change some of our beliefs about what we have reason to do.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.

Those who are led of the spirit to follow a different path, let us say," she said, a little tersely. "And, no, they wouldn't. But the point I am making is that when such a group breaks away over some point of doctrine, they are inclined to cling even more rigorously to the rest of their beliefs and be more fierce even than the original group." Ian

According to the vicar, many of the local folk thought the War was due in part to people turning away from their roots and omitting to take proper precautions, such as burying a sacrifice under the foundation, that is, or burning fishes' bones on the hearth—except haddocks, of course," he added, happily distracted. "You never burn a haddock's bones—did you know?—or you'll never catch another. Always bury the bones of a haddock instead.

had no notion how much resemblance there was between what he was doing, and the original beliefs of the Iroquois

There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things. I don't see the need for that, but if people want to do it, why shouldn't they?