Common Beliefs Quotes

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

We have an American religion; we do believe in a lot of things together.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

I am the mainstream.

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

When like-minded people deliberate as an organized group, the general opinion shifts towards extreme versions of their common beliefs.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.

What I think, a lot of people think. They're just too afraid to say it.

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

I want people raising my kid that see along the same lines of values and issues as I do.