Belief Impact Quotes

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

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.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.

There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.

You're not what you eat; you're what you believe about what you eat.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.