Quotes About Beliefs

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. "Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Unfortunately the ppl who would do the most good w/ a large sum of $ are often the same ppl who have the biggest hang ups about making $.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.