Top 405 Beliefs Quotes

It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India’s 800 million Hindus?

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there’s also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

I’m a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

I don’t discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I’ve given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

While all religious beliefs should be respected, choice is a human right.

I’m a big fan of monsters. Number one, they’re fun, and two, they’re such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

It’s important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can’t let people’s nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they’re wrong.

Everyone – whether it’s the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics – everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

If organized religion has become less relevant, it’s not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs – it’s because they’ve held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments – who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

Anyone that’s ever listened to my message knows very well, that I believe in very solid biblical beliefs.

I got my first camera when I was 21 – my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday – but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

In my real life, I’m a Black Lives Matter social justice activist, and so it was incredibly interesting to me to play somebody coming from the totally opposite side, whose beliefs are as deeply entrenched – as deeply felt, and given as much gravity, as I give my beliefs.

Britain First, the English Defence League, the British National Party, and the National Front are all guilty of using British symbols and institutions (notably support for the Armed Forces) to attempt to further their own deeply objectionable beliefs.

Information that confirms our beliefs makes us feel good; information that challenges our beliefs doesn’t.

I am in a business that’s built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Oh, I don’t have any religious beliefs.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions – Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.

I remember thinking this was a proper football interview, just as David Davies had promised. But then the line of questioning changed, and it became about my beliefs on reincarnation.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

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.

I want people to understand you just can’t wish hard on anybody just because they have different beliefs than you.

Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women’s roles.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs.

I think one of the brilliant parts of our democracy is how resilient it is. We are each allowed to have our own beliefs and, as long as we follow the rule of law, we can express them however we’d like. This is a unique characteristic of the best democracies and one I value tremendously.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

The perspective of people who truly believe that abortion is wrong. I understand that, I’m empathetic to that, I get it. But the place where I think we need to come to some kind of an understanding is that… you have your ability to have your own beliefs but the government doesn’t play a role in that.

I’m boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong – the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

It’s important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don’t discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don’t really matter.

My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren’t the god-fearing characters. It wasn’t a conscious decision. I’m a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.

I’ve read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy’s character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

People and organizations should not be silenced because of their political beliefs, especially by a government agency.

Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people’s beliefs.