Quotes About Beliefs

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

Se le credenze di qualcuno non fanno del male al prossimo, non credo che quel qualcuno debba essere punito.

Chits knew no ideology.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn't know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn't get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn't hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.

Luckless is that country in which the symbols of procreation are held in horror!' he wrote, 'while the agents of destruction are revered!

Americans were those folks who loved to profess peace-loving values, but who fought about everything.

A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and real; the latter is necessarily amorphous and more easily guided by those who can manipulate human actions and beliefs.

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

people who believe the game is rigged are easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas.

Moreover, people who believe the game is rigged are easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas.

People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but—" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

I spent most of my life feeling like I was being punished because I was taught that God was punishing and that I was unworthy and deserved to be punished. I had thrown out those beliefs about God and life on a conscious, intellectual level in my late teens - but in Recovery I was horrified to discover that I was still reacting to life emotionally based on those beliefs.

The way we do that is to change the attitudes and beliefs within us that tell us that we are not Lovable.

Philosophy is all about our beliefs and attitudes about ourselves and the world. Doing philosophy, therefore, is first of all the activity of stating, as clearly and as convincingly as possible, what we believe and what we believe in.

Apart from their attitude toward Lenin, Bolsheviks were not generally inclined to attach much importance to the personal factor in politics. To their Marxist-trained minds, what mainly mattered about a comrade was not his personality but his political beliefs, his ideological commitment, the rightness or wrongness of his positions in party councils.