Belief Quotes - Page 17

• It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Faith, Believe, People

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 14, 1954.

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  Dalai Lama

  Views, People, Miracle

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• My 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. Lawrence

  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

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• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Believe, Tests, Action

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• No 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 Miller

  Leadership, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

  Henry Miller

  Law, Miracle, Doctrine

  "Black Spring". Book by Henry Miller, 1936.

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• I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

  Wilson Mizner

  Hate, Believe, Effort

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• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Literature, Ifs

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• 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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Giving, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

  Richard Rorty

  Motivational, Deep Inside, Deep Down

  Richard Rorty (1982). “Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980”, p.42, U of Minnesota Press

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• The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

  Jean Rostand

  Independent, Conviction, Nobility

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

  Herodotus

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Believe, Principles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at 1981 Sir Robert Menzies lecture at Blackwood Hall of Monash University in Melbourne, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.

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• I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

  Leo Rosten

  Believe, People, Atheism

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Honore de Balzac (1884). “Cousin Pons”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Christian, Believe, Long

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• A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Men, Creeds

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Believe, Men

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

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• Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

  Felix S. Cohen

  Spiritual, Believe, Facts

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• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Kindness, Life Lesson

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.165, 谷月社

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