Useful Belief Quotes

#1. Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with this sort of thing better than men can. Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic. Men, for some mysterious reason, find life more difficult than women do. (My mother believes this, despite the female bodies, trapped, diseased, disappearing, or abandoned, that litter her stories.) Men must be allowed to play in the sandbox of their choice, as happily as they can, without disturbance; otherwise they get cranky and won't eat their dinners. There are all kinds of things that men are simply not equipped to understand, so why expect it of them? Not everyone shares this believe about men; neverthetheless, it has its uses. #Quote by Margaret Atwood

#2. The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established ... These decisions enunciate a rule that informed medical consensus and the 'universality of scientific belief' may be established through the testimony of a (one, single - Ed.) medical doctor. #Quote by J. Edward Day

#3. I began to realize something fundamental about field-work: that it is useless to concentrate exclusively on one's 'research project.' One has to be endlessly curious about everything, sharpen one's eyes and ears, and take notes about everything. The experience of strangeness makes all your senses more sensitive than normal, and your attachment to comparison grows deeper. This is why fieldwork is also so useful when you return home. You will have developed habits of observation and comparison that encourage or force you to start noticing that your own culture is just as strange. #Quote by Benedict Anderson

#4. 'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination. #Quote by Corey Hart

#5. Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other. #Quote by Aron Ralston

#6. What, however, makes culture and ideology attractive? They become attractive when they are seen as rooted in material success and influence. Soft power is power only when it rests on a foundation of hard power. Increases in hard economic and military power produce enhanced self-confidence, arrogance, and belief in the superiority of one's own culture or soft power compared to those of other peoples and greatly increase its attractiveness to other peoples. Decreases in economic and military power lead to self-doubt, crises of identity, and efforts to find in other cultures the keys to economic, military, and political success. #Quote by Samuel P. Huntington

#7. If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others ... Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material. #Quote by Rodney Crowell

#8. The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure. #Quote by Carrie Chapman Catt

#9. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith #Quote by Terry Eagleton

#10. Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit. #Quote by Todd Park

#11. Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits. #Quote by Agnes Repplier

#12. A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off? #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#13. Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born. #Quote by Milan Kundera

#14. Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith. Broadly speaking, "faith" does not apply only to belief in the supernatural. We have faith in our life, for example, believing we will live to see tomorrow, or in our health, believing we have years of healthy life ahead of us. Husbands and wives, parents and children have faith in one another. #Quote by Kentetsu Takamori

#15. I say she was a lady because a lady is a fancier kind of woman, and the dress was as fancy as you could imagine, long and luxurious and the liveliest yellow with black bits on the edges. It wasn't a dress you could have done anything useful in. It was a dress made to get in the way. It was, however, a very good dress for lounging in and looking at people. And her eyes were doing a very intense job of looking. #Quote by C.A. Fletcher

#16. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective. #Quote by Tim Kreider

#17. All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about. #Quote by John Milton

#18. I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life
in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice. #Quote by Frank Sinatra

#19. If you got a dream, you are good to go. The only extra luggage you will need is self-belief and perseverance. #Quote by Unarine Ramaru

#20. Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd. #Quote by Peter Abelard

#21. Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive. #Quote by Denise Scott Brown

#22. To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ... it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it. #Quote by John Quincy Adams

#23. The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. #Quote by John Godfrey Saxe

#24. No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god."
"Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#25. Art is the way to galaxies, to grab some miracles here on earth which are impossible to the rest of the world, it always challenges the obsolete belief systems. As i read somewhere a very beautiful message for life and growth, "Break the systems if they kill your art, souls and creativity, walk alone if it's necessary." enjoy the process.

~ Mohsin Ali Shaukat #Quote by Mohsin Ali Shaukat

#26. If you believe you are plenty, you will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance. #Quote by T. Harv Eker

#27. I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL ...
BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK .
. IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS #Quote by ASHISH RANJAN

#28. Virtuous behavior by a believer is no proof at all of - indeed is not even an argument for - the truth of his belief. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#29. What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God to
act in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believe
he is still the God of the Bible - and to act on that faith. To throw
away fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that we
have and all that we are so we may follow only our simple belief
that the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will still
do what he says in his Word. #Quote by Wes Moore

#30. There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise. #Quote by Neil Gaiman

#31. If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position #Quote by Radhe Maa

#32. What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life? It might be a good move to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager. And at the workplace, while it's probably advisable to detect and terminate those who show signs of becoming mass killers, there are other annoying people who might actually have something useful to say: the financial officer who keeps worrying about the bank's subprime mortgage exposure or the auto executive who questions the company's overinvestment in SUVs and trucks. Purge everyone who 'brings you down,' and you risk being very lonely, or, what is worse, cut off from reality. #Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

#33. There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs. #Quote by Keith Lehrer

#34. The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. #Quote by Albert Einstein

#35. If we say, 'Oh, my goodness ... we think we've found another Earthlike planet,' we will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do. #Quote by Morgan Freeman

#36. Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small. #Quote by Eli Broad

#37. While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity) #Quote by Cornelius Castoriadis

#38. It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. #Quote by John Stuart Mill

#39. I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. #Quote by Benjamin Franklin

#40. Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. #Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

#41. Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief … #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#42. The ones who were actually making an effort to follow the general course of events, and trying to get involved through self-sacrifice and heroic conduct, were the least useful members of society; they looked at things the wrong way round, and everything they did, with the best of intentions, turned out to be useless and absurd, like the regiments provided by Pierre and Mamonov that went off to loot Russian villages, like the lint scraped by the ladies that never got through to the wounded, and so on. Even people who just liked to think things through and talk them over couldn't discuss the current situation of Russia without unconsciously lapsing into hypocrisy, falsehood or useless victimization and animosity levelled against individuals they were eager to blame for things that weren't anybody's fault.

Historical events illustrate more clearly than anything the injunction against eating of the Tree of Knowledge. The only activity that bears any fruit is subconscious activity, and no one who takes part in any historical drama can ever understand its significance. If he so much as tries to understand it, his efforts are fruitless. #Quote by Leo Tolstoy

#43. The belief that becomes truth for me ... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action. #Quote by Andre Gide

#44. O Lord, be magnified for your wondrous works. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater. #Quote by Diane Paulus

#46. I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write. #Quote by Jane Hirshfield

#47. Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. #Quote by Esther Forbes

#48. A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. #Quote by John B. S. Haldane

#49. Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual bases for knowing what is beyond belief. #Quote by Neil Postman