Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
A man lives by believing something.
As individuals think and believe, so they are.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.
By far the best proof is experience.
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
Think 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? ... No other human institution comes close.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
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