Quotes About Beliefs

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

People can cooperate, compete peacefully, or use violence to achieve their objectives, depending on what they believe will serve them best in any given circumstance.

The history of ideologies should teach modesty, or at least warn against fixations and biases.

Ideological clashes, antagonism, and fixations are as old as civilization.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

I don't like political rappers.

Pixar is a community in the true sense of the word. We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

And for me, I reached the point where I know the way I live my life is not conventional, and so I feel like whatever relationship I do end up in is also not going to be conventional. So I don't operate from feeling like I have to be with someone who is Muslim, or the other way around.

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential.