O Quotes
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“Our being satisfied eventually irritates our mind.”
“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.”
“Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.”
“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.”
“Our belief in our divinity will rewrite our life, and create it anew”
“Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.”
Source: The Unconscious Civilization
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake ... We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books. Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and -- since there is no other metaphor -- also the soul.”
Source: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.”
“Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.”
Source: The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion
“Our belief systems are the glasses through which we each view the world and anticipate what is likely to unfold. Our behavior is always loyal with our beliefs.”
“Our beliefs about bodies disproportionately impact those whose race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and age deviate from our default notions. The further from the default, the greater the impact. We are all affected - but not equally.”
Source: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“Our beliefs about traditional marriage date from agrarian cultures, where you made everything you ate or wore or used, where large extended families helped get this huge amount of work done so nobody starved, and where marriage was a working proposition. When we talk about “traditional family values,” this is the family we are talking about: an extended family of grandparents and aunts and cousins, an organization to accomplish the work of staying alive.”
Source: The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities
“Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.”
“Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.”
“Our beliefs and thoughts coalesce into a kind of virtual
omnipotence that’s literally divine in its creational ability, allowing it to bring different versions of reality into existence.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Our beliefs are creating our reality.”
“Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.”
Source: Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)
“Our beliefs are really rules for action.”
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Our beliefs are rooted deep in our earth, no matter what you have done to it and how much of it you have paved over. And if you leave all that concrete unwatched for a year or two, our plants, the native Indian plants, will pierce that concrete and push up through it.”
“Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.”
“Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.”
“Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.”
“Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.”
“Our beliefs can paralyze our thinking abilities. The stronger the belief, the more severe the paralysis.”
“Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.”
Source: Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem
“Our beliefs define us. And who wants to be undefined in today’s world? So we scrape together convenient truths and build our identities out of them.”
“Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.”
“Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.”
“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by the worldview of Newtonian physics, which asserts that reality is objective—that there is a material universe existing outside of our experience. But this isn’t true; there is no material universe outside of you; the Universe takes form through you.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“Our beliefs shape our reality so let's believe anything is possible and make it happen!”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.”
“Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren’t saved by belief. We’re saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It’s simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.”
“Our bellies are empty and our patience is short...submit to us and we will make of you a great quiche!'
'Again with the QUICHE?! What kind of self-respecting monster would eat a DAINTY PASTRY DISH?! STEW is what we will make of their bones!'
'Don't get greedy on me! There's three of them! I just want the little one for my quiche!'
'It was nothing to do with greed! It's a matter of principle! MONSTERS DO NOT EAT QUICHE!”
Source: Bone, Vol. 4: The Dragonslayer
“Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts
“Our best advice in life usually comes from someone we least expect.”
“Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas....
Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another.”
Source: Zero History
“Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows”
Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man
“Our best chance for happiness is education.”
“Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.”
“Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.”
“Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.”
“Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.”
Source: Influence: science and practice
“Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“Our best history is still poetry.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude