Belief creates behaviors.
Neale Donald WalschTags: belief
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Søren KierkegaardTags: belief
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tags: intelligence belief thought evolution misattributed-to-einstein open-mindedness development new-ideas
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam ChomskyTags: freedom belief expression believe despise freedom-of-expression
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham LincolnTags: belief
If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would say to them that in my opinion they were all atheists as well; I merely believe in one god less than each of them." "How so?" the Emperor asked. "All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own," said Birbal. "And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none."
-- From "The Shelter of the World
Tags: belief
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.
Isaac AsimovTags: science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
Jodi PicoultTags: belief
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas PaineTags: murder belief bible cruelty the-bible cruel rapine
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C.S. LewisTags: truth belief life-and-death
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