Belief Quotes - Page 33

• Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

  Michael Shermer

  Heart, Science, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

  Steven Erikson

  War, Fall, Self

  "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

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• The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.

  Kenneth Burke

  Attitude, Men, Political

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• Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.

  Alcee Hastings

  Religious, People, May

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• Beliefs can be roadways or roadblocks. A variety of beliefs can make life interesting and colorful.

  James Van Praagh

  Interesting, Variety, Colorful

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• The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Art, Redemption, Crafts

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• California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Children, Destiny, Land

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• Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

  Neal Boortz

  Race, Racism, Inherent

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• In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Suffering, Culture, World

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.310, Penguin Books India

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• Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space

  Gavin DeGraw

  Space, Relax, Scratches

  Song: Belief 2, Album: Chariot, 2003

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• If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Somewhere Else

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

  Gunter Grass

  Suicidal, Games, Rivals

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• Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Believe, Light, Years

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.242, Hay House, Inc

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• In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

  David Herbert Donald

  Religious, Prayer, President

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• How funny is it that so many professors labeled Tea Partiers as terrorists, while kissing the asses of real, bona fide terrorists? It's not funny, really. But it's the result of a simple equation: One is cool, and the other isn't. Own a gun and keep it by your bed in your remote farmhouse? You're a redneck. Purchase guns that end up killing a judge? Priceless. As long as you cling to cool, progressive beliefs that deem America evil, whatever you do is cool. And if you do it under a big fuzzy 'fro? Even cooler. Hell, if you 'fro is big enough, you could nuke an orphanage and still get tenure.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Real, Kissing, Redneck

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.72, Crown Forum

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• In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Religious, Perfect, Political

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• The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

  John Keegan

  People, Islam, Middle East

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• I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Past, Names, Giving

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• Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, People, Way

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• As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

  Mark Messier

  Philosophy, Consistent

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• Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.

  Gangaji

  Doctrine, Truth Is, Revelations

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• For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

  Anthony Braxton

  Creativity, Errors, Creative

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• There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order.

  Anthony Braxton

  Real, Dedication, Offering

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