There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief...

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don’t be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If...

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in...

Many people are living unhappily because they keep trying to experience happiness without evicting the negative thoughts and beliefs that are vandalizing their minds.

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely...

Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. ‘I’m sorry about your shins,’ she said. Milena lifted the lid of the box, and saw it, the precious paper, ruled in staves. People...

They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have always heard lauded and never discussed. But in the sense of that living...

When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it...

We talk what we think but do what we believe.

God’s word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action.

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

In part. She sat down and pulled her necklace out of her shirt. “I read about it in my mother’s journal. The Witches believe we are all parts of a whole. Like the phases of...

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Human beings believe just as they breathe – in order to survive.

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil,...

Don’t entrust your future on others’ hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God’s guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!

Learn and grow from your trials and tribulations. Don’t allow them to conquer your mind and steal your true destiny in life. You are unquestionably stronger than your negative thoughts suggest.

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...

We don’t see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We...

Your truth isn’t everybody else’s truth.

I don’t know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

With the right Mindset…effective thinking is automatic.

You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over.

Faith doesn’t work if you don’t even believe it.

We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution – we must protect that at all costs.

I think you are wise. You haven’t got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary’s father. He couldn’t understand Lenin’s dictum: ‘Away with softness.'”I thought of Hercule Poirot’s words.”I’m content,” I said,...

Los científicos e individuos de finales del siglo veinte son altamente creyentes, tanto como los científicos de antaño, lo único que ha cambiado es el objeto de su fe, los tradicionales creían en principios universales...

People, material and situation come in to our lives because of our thoughts and beliefs. When we don’t want those experiences, we try to push them away. When we use our vital energy in resisting...

Never seize to constantly remind yourself that your positive thoughts and beliefs are the pillars of your peace of mind.

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative...

In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don’t forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!

I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.

When you hold onto a script that doesn’t serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does.

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn’t go to school for that, but if you’re going to be there anyway, then that’s the most...

Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of...

If they told us what to believe, and we didn’t come to it on our own, is it still true?

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn’t.

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

I’m willing to die for my beliefs, but over the course of a lifetime and not all at once right now.

Whatever belief that doesn’t make you happier, stronger, healthier or wiser, surely doesn’t deserve to be sheltered in your mind.

There are more blessings in the book of your destiny than your negative thoughts and beliefs are suggesting.

I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values explain who am I. I prefer struggling and even dying for what I...

I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn’t pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt...