Quotes About Beliefs

In order to change beliefs, we first need to learn a way of finding out the qualities of beliefs.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

no word in the Hebrew language of that period for "religion." Religion was not a separate, identifiable category of beliefs and activities. It was an inseparable, pervasive part of life.

There is an important clue here about how seemingly similar groups, cities, and even nations can converge on very different beliefs and actions simply because of modest and even arbitrary variations in starting points.

If such as Thomas a Kempis and Bernard of Clairvaux are generous providers of the occasion of education, rather than reciters of precepts and beliefs, it is because they are seeking to be virtuous and to compose their own lives, rather than worrying that others might be vicious, leading discordant lives. Such teachers do the best that a teacher can do. In their own deliberations, they cast enough light that I may see something by it, if I happen to be looking.

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths.

The phone rings, but she doesn't pick up. It's one of three men whose beliefs about her logistics she can no longer keep straight.

Beliefs should not be considered delusional if they are in keeping with societal norms.

Each generation has to appropriate its deepest beliefs for itself. We used to say it this way: "God has no grandchildren." Each generation must itself be realigned with God and discover the mystery for itself.

What passes for morality or spirituality in the vast majority of people's lives is the way everybody they grew up with thinks. Some would call it conditioning or even imprinting.

city' meant two different things – one a physical place, the other a mentality compiled from perceptions, behaviours and beliefs.

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.

Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.

Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.

Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas

Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

o piensan que ese territorio es sagrado porque es donde los espíritus de sus ancestros se reúnen bajo la luna llena.

atacó a los bolcheviques, no por tener los ideales equivocados, sino por tener los ideales correctos pero ser incapaces de vivir de acuerdo con ellos.

Look, most Republicans are decent men who simply have a view of the world that is different from ours. But there is a hard core of fucking nutcases.