Quotes with beliefs

Quotes 61 till 80 of 80.

  • Asa Gray There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Carl Edward Sagan There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
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  • Louise Erdrich They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Margaret Thatcher To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • John F. Kennedy Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Richardson We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • James Baldwin We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Aaron Siskind We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
    Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)
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  • Asa Gray We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Boris Kodjoe We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Henry Miller What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Robbins What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Marcia Wieder You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • David Seabury Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Simone Weil In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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