It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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