More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for kindly behaviour, the results may be needlessly unfortunate. That is why it is important to show that no supernatural reasons are needed to make [people] kind and to prove that only through kindness can the human race achieve happiness.
Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity
The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh, and the Fiqh is the man-made element and the Shari'a is theoretically the divine element but it depends on one's personal beliefs.
An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group. . . with a body of sacred documents and heroes.
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.
Now, one of my beliefs, one of my theorems that I have evolved over the years is that when it comes to Democrats and the media they will always tell us who they fear. And all we have to do to learn that is look at who they're trying to damage andor destroy.
. . . a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. . . . a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.