Belief Quotes - Page 31

• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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• What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Reader, Subjective

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “Beyond Lies the Wub”

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• It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Reality, Statistics, Hard

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• Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

  William Godwin

  Length Of Life, Doctrine, Statistics

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• Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Airplane, Math

  "Guide to Essential Math: A Review for Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Students". Book by Sy M. Blinder, p. 16, February 14, 2013.

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• My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

  Richard Rorty

  Ambition, Transcendence, Motive

  Richard Rorty (1991). “Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Wall, Honesty, Moving

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• Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

  Jack Kornfield

  Limits, Stuck, Shows

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2015

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• We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

  Jack Kornfield

  Smart, Ideas, Gone

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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• Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  People, Democracy, Different

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• The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Reality, Revolution, Ends

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.83, Lulu.com

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• It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Men, Thinking, Practice

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• Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.

  William Stringfellow

  Men, Way, Moral

  William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.36, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

  Spencer Bachus

  United States, Alabama, Beneficial

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• In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs — not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom.

  Mark Steyn

  Book, Self, Media

  "Firing Up the Crowd: From Newsweek to the Nuts, in One Fast Ball". www.jewishworldreview.com. May 23, 2005.

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• When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off.

  Amelia Bloomer

  Burden, Apparel, Casts

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• High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

  Paul Hersey

  People, Expectations, Facts

  Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson (2008). “Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources”, Prentice Hall

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• It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

  Connie Willis

  Church Choir, Needs, World

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• The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

  Alan Kay

  Reality, Problem, Humans

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• I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Doors, Other Worlds

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

  Simon Sinek

  Discipline, Consistency, Balance

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• Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

  Charles Duhigg

  Community, Easier

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• Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.

  Charles Duhigg

  Believe, Skills, People

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• The same process that makes AA so effective—the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe—happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

  Charles Duhigg

  Believe, People, Community

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• There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

  Charles Duhigg

  Powerful, People, Community

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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