Quotes About Beliefs

Are any of these anxieties or beliefs about my past real? Maybe I'm just making them up?re-creating the past. I have to smile as I look at what I just wrote. I can tell when my solitary exploration becomes too threatening, or when I'm treading close to a memory too frightening to be remembered. Rather than push through unfamiliar brush, I stomp the well-worn path of "Maybe I'm making all of this up." But retreating there no longer makes sense to me.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

It reminds us that we are not called to be parrots, unquestioningly repeating whatever we learn from a favorite teacher. Instead, we are to exercise wisdom and discernment, continually asking questions, weighing answers, seeking understanding, and grounding our beliefs within the context of God's Word and the wisdom of Christian tradition.

Rumors often reflect the wishes of others.

Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community's values.

Outcomes don't tell us what's our fault and what isn't, what we should take credit for and what we shouldn't. Unlike in chess, we can't simply work backward from the quality of the outcome to determine the quality of our beliefs or decisions. This makes learning from outcomes a pretty haphazard process.

Truthseeking, the desire to know the truth regardless of whether the truth aligns with the beliefs we currently hold, is not naturally supported by the way we process information. We might think of ourselves as open-minded and capable of updating our beliefs based on new information, but the research conclusively shows otherwise. Instead of altering our beliefs to fit new information, we do the opposite, altering our interpretation of that information to fit our beliefs.

We might think of ourselves as open-minded and capable of updating our beliefs based on new information, but the research conclusively shows otherwise. Instead of altering our beliefs to fit new information, we do the opposite, altering our interpretation of that information to fit our beliefs.

Incorporating uncertainty into the way we think about our beliefs comes with many benefits. By expressing our level of confidence in what we believe, we are shifting our approach to how we view the world. Acknowledging uncertainty is the first step in measuring and narrowing it. Incorporating uncertainty in the way we think about what we believe creates open-mindedness, moving us closer to a more objective stance toward information that disagrees with us.

what you value and what someone else values will be different. And your goals and values will inform your preferences for various outcomes. That means that how much you prefer a particular outcome relative to other possibilities will naturally be different from another person's preference for the same outcome relative to other possibilities.

What is hopefully (crystal ball) clear by now is that your beliefs create a bottleneck to good decision-making. It doesn't matter how good the quality of your decision process is if the input into that process is junk. That input is your beliefs, and there is a lot of junk in there.

Surprisingly, being smart can actually make bias worse. Let me give you a different intuitive frame: the smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.

We would be better served as communicators and decision-makers if we thought less about whether we are confident in our beliefs and more about how confident we are. Instead of thinking of confidence as all-or-nothing (" I'm confident" or "I'm not confident"), our expression of our confidence would then capture all the shades of grey in between.

The way we process new information is driven by the beliefs we hold, strengthening them.

I can say that Nick the Greek lost a lot of money based on his beliefs—or, more accurately, because he ignored lots of feedback that his strategy was a losing one. He eventually went broke because he didn't recognize learning opportunities as they arose.

It turns out the better you are with numbers, the better you are at spinning those numbers to conform to and support your beliefs.

Jeg udmålte tiden på en anden måde, med hele min krop. Jeg opdagede hvad man faktisk er i stand til, nemlig hvad som helst. Ophøjede eller dødelige former for begær, mangel på værdighed samt overbevisninger og opførsel som jeg havde opfattet som forrykte hos andre indtil jeg så mig selv tage tilflugt til dem. Uden at han var klar over det, fik han mig til at føle mig mere forbundet med verden.

While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others.

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No!

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.