Quotes About Beliefs

What are our beliefs designed for? They're the guiding force to tell us what will lead to pain and what will lead to pleasure.

les impulsa a progresar hacia un criterio más alto, les ayuda a adoptar creencias nuevas y más poderosas que les permitan progresar más allá de sus viejas limitaciones, y apoya todo eso con habilidades y estrategias específicas necesarias para el éxito a lo largo de toda la vida.

La primera puerta representa el sistema de creencias de una persona. Lo que una persona cree, lo que juzga factible o no, en gran medida determina lo que es capaz de hacer o no.

You must understand that you're working for a crazy maniac and that our duty is to find out what he wants and to create the world that he believes in, and to show him that's the way things are

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Common sense] is a spontaneous set of beliefs which together express a conception of the world which takes the social order as 'the way things are.' It is apparently the 'spontaneous feelings' that people have, the traditional popular conception of the world – what is unimaginatively called "instinct" although it too is in fact a primitive and elementary historical acquisition.

Egos bruised. Pride shaken. Beliefs shamelessly debunked. But hey -- we're still alive and breathing!!

man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

a man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

Los domingos por la mañana examinaba mis amuletos, la caja con dólares de plata que había enterrado junto al arroyo, y la muñeca enterrada en el campo, y el libro clavado en un árbol del pinar; mientras todo permaneciera donde yo lo había dejado, nada podía sucedernos

Of all the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that have supposedly been surmounted there is not one whose residues do not live on among us to-day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultural society. What has once come to life clings tenaciously to its existence. One feels inclined to doubt sometimes whether the dragons of primaeval days are really extinct.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

It is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other and more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which those ancestors

They were not altogether to blame. They were the products of Prohibition, mass production, and an education dominated by the beliefs that one goes to college to become acquainted with people who will later be useful in business, and that the greatness of a university is in ratio to the number of its students and the number of its athletic victories.

Does it matter if we're a bit old-fashioned?

It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions.

Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

For Republicans, life begins at conception but ends at birth.