beliefs

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

Are your consistent beliefs serving you or are they holding you back?

What you believe matters, however. It__ all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don__ believe anything is true simply because you can__ logically prove what__ true, you won__ do anything. You won__ be anything. You__l end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It__ an old philosophical problem.

When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others_ heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has steadily improved. If there is a battle today somewhere on the planet, we experience it almost as if we were there. DuringWorld War II, tens of thousands of people might perish in a battle, and if the public could see it at all it was in a grainy newsreel in a movie theater weeks later. During World War I a small elite could read about the progress of the conflict in the newspaper(without pictures). During the nineteenth century there was almost no access to news in a timely fashion for anyone.

One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

We asked volunteers to report their own beliefs, God's beliefs, and the average American's beliefs on a wide variety of social issues while they were lying on their backs in an fMRI scanner. We found some clear distinctions. Major differences in neural activity emerged when people reasoned about their own beliefs and the average American's beliefs. We found the very same pattern of differences when people reasoned about God's beliefs versus the average American's beliefs. But the most amazing result of all was that we could not tell the difference in overall neural activity between people reasoning about their own beliefs versus God's beliefs. In the scanner, reasoning about God's beliefs looked the same as reasoning about one's own beliefs.

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

Believe in what you want to believe in and don't let other people change that.

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.

A person tends to believe whatever is repeated over and over, whether it is true or not.

In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don__ forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!