Top 1200 Questioning Beliefs Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.

Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.

My mum's got morals and principles, and I've been brought up with those ideas and beliefs.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.

We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.

I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

I'm so grateful for Living the Questions. These progressive voices offer less rigid and more expansive approaches to Christian faith, and make room for people who practice critical thinking and question the gatekeepers. They help us see that questioning the gatekeepers is exactly what Jesus was all about.

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.

Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.

I am able to put aside personal beliefs and follow the law, even when I strongly disagree with it.

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.

Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.

But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now, Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.