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Belief Quotes
"It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so."
13
"A belief is an uneducated guess."
13
"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
13
"When superstitions infect you, it controls your mind."
12
"I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole."
12
"I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it."
11
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
11
"Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated."
11
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."
11
"I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit."
11
"The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ."
11
"They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous."
11
"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."
11
"Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them."
10
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
10
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
10
"My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave."
10
"The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for."
10
"I promise you it doesn't matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do."
10
"Whatsoever things are true...think on these things."
10
"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
10
"The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed."
10
"I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out."
9
"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't."
9
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