Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

Chris Prentiss

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.

Marcel Proust

Accept what makes you happy and pay no attention to fearful beliefs no matter who they come from.

Raphael Zernoff

In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.

Bryant McGill

Are your consistent beliefs serving you or are they holding you back?

Mike Basevic

Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of them will never be. Question your beliefs. Choose what promotes love and unity.

Raphael Zernoff

If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.

Bryant McGill

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

Jim Al-Khalili

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

Julian Houston

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

Thomas Gilovich

It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs

Malaclypse the Younger

When we prefer to believe something, we may approach the relevant evidence by asking ourselves,"what evidence is there to support this belief?"...Note that this question is not unbiased: It directs our attention to supportive evidence and away from information that might contradict the desired conclusion. Because it is almost always possible to uncover some supportive evidence, the asymmetrical way we frame the question makes us overly likely to become convinced of what we hope to be true.

Thomas Gilovich

Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do.

Thomas Gilovich

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

Thomas Gilovich

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be "an irresistible product" of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

Thomas Gilovich

we believe certain things because they ought to be true.

Thomas Gilovich

Inside accounts of Presidential advisory groups make it clear that the failure to express dissent can have direct, immediate, and severe consequences...Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do. Bolstered by such a false sense of social support, our beliefs strike us as more resistant to subsequent logical and empirical challenge.

Thomas Gilovich

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete.When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish."It's only fair," he says.

Mitch Albom

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

E.M. Forster

Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.

Russell Kyle

Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...

Bruce H. Lipton

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

Bruce H. Lipton

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.

Neil Gaiman

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Dean Koontz

As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life. pg.404

Hilary Mantel

Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!

Maddy Malhotra

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

Oscar Wilde

Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you happy. Only the release from these false beliefs can bring you true happiness and lasting peace.

David Hoffmeister

A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss.

Abhijit Naskar

At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.

P.C. Cast

Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.

Hina Hashmi

That which can happen in your future is far better than whatever happened in your past.

Maddy Malhotra

Secrets are gold and we are the miners.

Nelo Igboejesi

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

Marjane Satrapi

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

Louis C.K.

When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others’ heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.

Carla L. Rueckert

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

Libba Bray

Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.

Patty Houser

I'll always be here if you need me. I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.

Erin Hunter

On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.

Patty Houser

The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.

W.P. Kinsella

When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

Our behaviors reflect what we believe. If we want to change our behavior, we have to change our beliefs.

Patty Houser

People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because they don't share your God is beyond barbaric. The fact that there are people in our own country who seem to tolerate that, while being intolerant of a Christian's biblical stance regarding gay marriage, makes me want to go to leave the United States and go to a more sensible place, like Texas.

Greg Gutfeld

Many Christians never let the Bible get in the way of their believing, but depend on their logic, tradition, or experience to formulate beliefs.

Paul Silway

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

Joe Hill

Nothing is as powerful as one's beliefs.

Patty Houser

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

Mike Carey

Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical

Ki Longfellow

I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.

Kevin Breel

Shared beliefs and values form the heart of every successful relationship and ultimately determine its success.

Frank Sonnenberg

...the world would be a better place if we all believed whatever we wished but behaved towards each other as if there was no external deity to sort out our own problems...If you happened to hold the finest theological beliefs there are and if you understand all the best and most detailed divine precepts and commandments but in your daily life you are actually an angry, shouting inhumane swine,then that's the way you will be remembered. Believing is all very well, but behaving is what you are judged by and remembered for.

Buckman

When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being in the wilderness for a while, you may come around to feeling sociable. Maybe you could try living in a community of “like-minded” social deviants. However, they had better be so alike that they are clones of one another or the day will come when someone steps over the line and factions begin to teem. Our brains will always discriminate—that is their nature. They fix on superficial differences we spy in one another, redundantly speaking, since all differences among us are superficial.

Thomas Ligotti

The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very good story. For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous - and it is also essential.

Daniel Kahneman

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