Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather, it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. KennedyIn the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone WeilReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard DawkinsThe thing always happens that you really believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd WrightWho are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Groucho MarxDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
George OrwellTo believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.
Mahatma GandhiLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliI try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Muhammad AliMiracles only happen if you believe in miracles.
Paulo CoelhoGod made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil GibranNo 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 MillerTo me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret ThatcherMagic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnd the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.
Alan WattsThe songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Bob DylanThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinStrong beliefs win strong men and then make them stronger.
Richard BachDon't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Laurence J. PeterI don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you, doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry RollinsI hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson MiznerAmerica is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. BushThe fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleLearned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerOptimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose BierceIf 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 WaitleyIt's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Lily TomlinSuperstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene DietrichHave convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor RooseveltI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas JeffersonLive your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David ThoreauTruth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal, one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor W. AdornoWhen you have come to the edge of all the light you have, And step into the darkness of the unknown, Believe that one of the two will happen to you, Either you'll find something solid to stand on, Or you'll be taught how to fly!
Richard BachMany of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence, but we thought if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard DawkinsSince I move about with you, eat like you and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But any movement My Divinity may be revealed to you, you have to be ready prepared for that moment.
Sai BabaWomen are proverbially too individualistic! There is a popular belief born out of folk - experience that three women cannot live in unison!
Sai BabaThe most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles LambI shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert EinsteinSome believe all that parents, tutors and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance and defend them as they would their estates because they are born heirs to them.
Alan WattsWhere belief is painful, we are slow to believe.
OvidThe world we see, that seems so insane, is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William JamesI'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance, and generosity, that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. WilsonI believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya AngelouThe word 'Antichrist' to me is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn MansonWhy, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis CarrollI was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah WinfreyThe probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham LincolnNow God be praised that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William ShakespeareReligious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. WilsonI don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Douglas AdamsWe've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaThe gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man that, though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
Jane AustenTruth lives in fact for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass so long as nothing challenges them just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William JamesI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LewisDo not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.
BuddhaFrisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George CarlinWhen a man tells you who he is... believe him.
Maya AngelouI do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert EinsteinYou should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin LutherIn my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William CongreveA 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 rumor.
Aldous Huxley