Best Belief Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.”

Ifs I Can Reason Shows Turns Belief Audience Week Television Tvs Following Endless Things To Do Shakes Insecurity No Reason Television Shows

Author:Chuck Lorre

“Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.”

Spiritual Belief Evidence Fundamentals Wipe Scientific Evidence Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Damon Lindelof

“The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.”

Belief Animal Share Planets Huge Creatures Impact Raised

Author:Stella McCartney

“Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.”

Way Wells Political Values Belief Enjoy Shapes Perception Advantage Attachment Partisans Incumbents Beliefs And Values

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.”

Kind Ideas Reason Fall Found Belief Existence Quality Conscious Immortality Associates Quality Of Life Falling Off Continuance

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.”

Belief Talking Catholic Priests

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.”

Way Christian Belief Simple Numbers Practice Crosses Symbols Discreet

Author:Keith O'Brien

“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.”

People Self Belief Acting Careers Stage Example Goes On Affirmation Belief In Self Enticing

Author:Miranda Otto

“At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.”

Ends Belief Break Reader Elements The End Of The Day Attachment Realism Magical Realism Make Or Break

Author:Tea Obreht

“The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.”

Political Certain House Belief Nations White Situation Broken Congress Addresses White House Voters Political Systems

Author:Ron Fournier

“Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.”

People Book Belief Realizing Attitude Painting Abstract Interpretation Surprising Thrilling Abstract Painting

Author:Marisha Pessl

“The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of reality experience you have... because physical reality doesn't exist except as a reflection of what you most strongly believe is true for you. That is all that physical reality is. It is literally like a mirror.”

Giving Believe Kind Reality Spiritual Belief Energy Emotion Behavior Reflection Mirrors Determine Attraction Law Of Attraction Frequency

Author:Darryl Anka

“If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.”

Ifs World Ends Suffering Belief Understanding Logic Humble Certainty Uncertainty Complexity Assumption Reasoning Belief Systems Ontology

Author:Moby

“Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.”

I Can God Home Remember Belief Awareness Raised Secular

Author:M. Scott Peck

“The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.”

People World America Belief Prove Jew Stations Shade Organize Nationality

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.”

Done Values Belief Causes Aspect Roots Hatred Universal Threat Jew Core Perceive Lasting Irrational Judaism Allegiance Representing Inexplicable Core Values Root Cause

Author:Dennis Prager

“A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government.”

“Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.”

People Moving Belief Firm

Author:Brian Lamb

“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.”

Humans Ideas Real Belief Growing Personality Higher Ideals Eternity Absolutes Raises Developing Thirst Superhuman Coherence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.”

Ifs Form Law Belief Strong Rich Modern Draws Response Islam Trauma Driven Traditional Islamic Distinction Entirety Islamic Law

Author:Daniel Pipes

“At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.”

People Mother Father Belief Can Do Advice Greek Recalls Distress Nurture Best Advice Keep The Faith

Author:George Papandreou

“I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.”

People Thinking Way Belief Share Achieve Areas Fundamentals Convinced Permanent Greek Euro Competitiveness Consolidation

Author:Lucas Papademos

“Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.”

Ifs Use Courses Belief Language Acceptance Implied

Author:Michael Polanyi

“These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.”

May Art Said Belief Tradition Maxims Interpreting

Author:Michael Polanyi

“I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.”

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Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.”

Thinking Want Should Stories Belief Cinema Agendas Preaching Provoking Soapbox

Author:Jeremy Renner

“I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won’t feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Belief Strong Higher Higher Power

Author:Alana Stewart

“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”

Wells Might Culture Belief Common Demand Illusion Contemporary Common Sense Pretending Systematic Fluffy

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.”

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Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.”

Belief Utterance Intentionality

Author:John Searle

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

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Author:Anatole France

“A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?”

Ifs Humans Happens Humanity Belief Week Conditions Buddhism Police Recognition Realistic Human Condition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.”

People World Stills Today Christian Spiritual Form Humanity Belief Buddhism Jew Various Concentration Feds Lions Camps Persecution Persecuted Concentration Camp

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.”

Inspirational Certain Belief Risk Atheism Acceptance Degrees Tasks Universal Illness Believer Spares Neurotic Agnosticism Neurosis

Author:Anatole France

“When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”

Inspirational Wells Has Beens Said Book Belief Drink Crafts Beer Copies Plagiarism Scruples

Author:Anatole France

“Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.”

People Should Writing Persons Important Ideas Belief Taught Firm Characteristics Smarter Important Person Firm Beliefs

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.”

People Writing Belief Cry Inspired Overwhelming Confession Shiver

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

“My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.”

People Needs Life Is Purpose Belief Social Economic

Author:Maurice Strong

“For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.”

Years Belief Term Discovery Believer Physics Justify Chemistry Scientific Discovery

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.”

People Want Bigs Belief Numbers Technology Fans Planets Faster Empowering Entity Subservient Really Deep

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.”

Belief Strong Excellence Olympian

Author:Debi Thomas

“Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.”

Facts Hate Belief Stores Peculiar

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.”

Should Persons Able Belief Couple Gay Protect Commitment Lifetime Lifetime Commitment

Author:Mark Udall

“More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.”

Men World War Belief Lost British Command Recognition War Of The Worlds World War I Beggar Second World War Bombers Servicemen

Author:Carol Vorderman

“My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?”

Men Actors Belief Responsible Refuse Belief In God

Author:Robert Vaughn

“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.”

People Believe Country States Seems Belief Interest United United States Dangerous Incredibles Absurd Outsiders

Author:Lawrence Wright

“To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.”

People Men Way Persons Sometimes Political Next Belief Feet He Man Perspective Work Out Rage Buddhist Oblivious Political Beliefs

Author:Mike White

“In one of my songs, in the song on the "Why?" remix that I did with Jadakiss in 2004, I said, "Why is Bush actin' like they tryin' to get Osama? Why don't we impeach him and elect Obama?" This is in 2004 on the "Why?" remix and I said that because I really had belief that Obama was the right person to be president”

Persons Said Song Belief President Right Person Remix

Author:Will Ferrell

“Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet.”

People Remember Used Hate Three Belief Path Successful Depends Envy Three Things Amnesia

Author:Jedediah Bila

“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

Truth Desire Belief Freedom Responsibility Knowledge Greater Materials Comfort Intelligent Population Dread Rulers Interfere

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

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