Quotes About Beliefs

What we live by we die by.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

On the internet, it is easy to find studies that support both sides of an argument. In general, you should never accept the validity of people's ideas because they have supplied "evidence." Instead, examine the evidence yourself in the cold light of day, with as much skepticism as you can muster. Your first impulse should always be to find the evidence that disconfirms your most cherished beliefs and those of others. That is true science.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

intellectuals have grown too comfortable with the achievements of the European Enlightenment and complacent with the beliefs that religious intolerance, violence, and wars are things of the past, and that religiously motivated violence or subjugation can be committed only by "others" against the West but not by the West against the other.

They were going their separate ways, splintered by their beliefs, and even after two separate years of enforced togetherness they were, like any other human group, no more than a collection of strangers. The die was cast.

The story of sacred texts has always been the story of their readers: of shifting and often clashing interpretations.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.