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Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.
- Robert Todd Carroll
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Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
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Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am responsible for my thoughts, my beliefs, and my actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Which beliefs bring out the best in you?
Which beliefs hold you prisoner to yesterday
and limit your options for designing a great future?
Test your beliefs with as much objectivity
as you can bring to the subject.
Be willing to let go of those beliefs
that represent your parents' opinions,
or your communities opinions, rather than your own.
Those beliefs that withstand rigorous testing,
should become the foundation of your being -
your reason for living.
Take action on those beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Meddling:
Everything that happens in the world, or doesn't happen,
is NOT my responsibility.
There are more than enough things that are my responsibility.
I am responsible for my thoughts, my beliefs, and my actions -
and that is enough.
It does not serve me to mind anyone else's business.
I can only make myself unhappy by trying to second guess
what anyone else thinks or does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are born believing.
A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beliefs have evolved based on survival value.
Certain belief systems have been more conducive than others
to people living long enough to reproduce,
and having a high rate of reproduction.
It's that basic.
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I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes
in every waking moment of their lives
to remind them that the lie of their inferiority
is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My ideas have undergone a process
of emergence by emergency.
When they are needed badly enough,
they are accepted.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
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