Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
[Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]
Karl PopperBelief in God is a very personal thing and for a lot of people, I think, their spiritual side and nature evolves and changes during the course of their lives.
Jeff GordonA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
Aldous HuxleyThe existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.
Franz BoasA lot of people now find belief in God immature, and eventually a lot of people may find realism immature.
[The Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn 1999]
Richard RortyA man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock EllisIn the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
Walter J LippmannCulture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom WolfeThink of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl SaganNo man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry MillerMy great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D H LawrenceWhat we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Anthony Robbins'It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds wall; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist'.
Friedrich NietzscheCredulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Tryon EdwardsBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Anthony RobbinsWe must be open to all who share our values and our beliefs - young, old, black, white, straight, gay. Under my leadership there will be no more grumpy Conservatism.
David DavisChristopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
Patti DavisBelief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. [And what about belief in the illusion of the absence of illusions?]
Barbara HarrisonThe more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund FreudThe dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey MadanFaith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard DawkinsOne person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart MillQuotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy DebordHis great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of Muhammad Ali [on Brian Clough]
John McGovernWhen I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
Neve CampbellIt is important that we have belief in God at all times of our life, and not just when we feel we have something to request of him or be particularly thankful for.
Benny HinnIf you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis WaitleyLiterary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson DaviesThere is a place in this world for satire but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs begins.
Isaac HayesOur thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming language.
John BackusUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanHe does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Sigmund FreudMen of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John GardnerGrieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountainside with its thick-ribbed ice
Alexander MaclarenMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerBe not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow AdamsA man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Henry EllisOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
Bertrand RussellFrisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George CarlinWhen it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Michael EndeWe are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannBooks are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther ForbesIt is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
Janet JacksonNo one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Ann LandersA good example from the biological world of complex changes appearing to be simple is the belief in spontaneous generation.
Michael BeheIt is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
Henry JamesThey were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise ErdrichI am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
Albert GallatinThe radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart
Walter J LippmannEveryone should be able to live their lives free to choose their own belief system, who they wish to love, whether they be black or white, male or female, dog or cat or horse, without being criticized for their choice
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