B Quotes
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“Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.”
“Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.”
Source: Italian Days
“Belief sustains a person, but behavior sustains a society.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Belief systems are ephemeral and have a self-reinforcing component. This self-reinforcing characteristic allows you to experience the sustained reality of that belief system because it is constantly being chosen second to second. It is a type of momentum going in one direction and inspires you to act and select the same way in the next moment.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“belief systems are not chosen
by statesmen on the basis of the quality of church frescos; and alphabets
are created by proselytizers, not at the initiative of those who are prose
lytized.”
Source: The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
“Belief systems are very easy to get stuck into, and the more of us who share them, the easier it is.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.”
Source: Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution
“Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.”
“Belief that you can act is a powerful motivator. Belief that change can happen in a flash is an even stronger motivator.”
Source: Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
“Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Belief traps or frees us.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.”
“Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.”
Source: Detour
“Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.”
“Belief was uniquely human.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.”
“Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.”
“Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?”
“Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.”
Source: For One More Day
“Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the door to an eternal store of heavenly truth, and charts the course to eternal life. . . . Belief is the brilliant beacon that marks the course through the waves and woes of the world to that celestial harbor where rest and safety are found.”
“Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.”
Source: Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.”
Source: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Being three Essays on Religion. With introductory notice by Helen Taylor
“Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“Beliefs about overimportance of thoughts and thought control are more frequent in highly religious people and mediate the observed association between religiosity and OCD. Thought-action fusion overlaps with magical thinking and is associated with religiosity, paranormal beliefs, and positive schizotypy. most likely, thought-action fusion plays a significant role in the etiology of autogenous obsessions.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Beliefs and myths are tied so closely together that you're never sure which is tale and which is true.”
Source: Reached
“Beliefs and thoughts alter cells in your body.”
“Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.”
“Beliefs are a consequence of what has been instituted. Knowing is a result of what has been experienced. Adopt what's real and moderate what feels.”
“Beliefs are, at best, a poor compass for navigating an endeavor. Your values, the guiding principles that you live by, are a much better choice for setting your course and correcting it as you go.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“Beliefs are bogus. Values more clearly reveal who you are.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.”
“Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.”
“Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”
“Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,
Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison
That keeps you from achieving what you want.”
“Beliefs are everywhere, you don't have to be a religious person to believe something.”
“Beliefs are limitations of vision and prisons of the mind. We believe too much and feel too little. Only when we follow our feelings, instead of denying them, will we break the grip the manipulators have on so many psyches. Go with the flow without fear of what others will think. The most powerful way to set ourselves free of the thinking, believing, fearing, intellect, is to celebrate our own uniqueness, allow everyone else to do the same, and never seek to impose what we believe on another.”
Source: I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom
“Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily "the truth" at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)”
Source: The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life
“Beliefs are our foundation and our guiding compass, navigating us through life.”
Source: Inner Peace Outer Abundance
“Beliefs are part of you creator energy, working to shape your individual experience of 'truth.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“Beliefs are personal, but universal truths are above that. For example, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,505 degrees Celsius – the speed of light is around 300,000 kilometers per second – the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old – modern day chimps are the closest cousins of us humans. These are irrefutable universal truth, regardless of what anyone believes.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“Beliefs are powerful motivators. You can gather a group of idiots with different viewpoints on the same subject and watch them reach a confident state of mind by gradually agreeing on untruthful conclusions. Or you can find an experienced researcher and doubt his uncommon insights and even watch how such insights are rejected by the previous group. But nothing is more unbelievable than a dream that was unseen and manifested far from the eyesight of the unbelievers, whom, through the actions motivated by their own thoughts, withdrew their presence from the continually transforming reality of the dreamer.”
“Beliefs are pretended limitations.”
“Beliefs are so beautiful too, they move you forward, not like a sheep though.”
“Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.”
“Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe.”
“Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'”
“Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.”
Source: The Broken God
“Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.”
“Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel