Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
Maxwell Maltz

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
Mary Garden

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
Horst Koehler

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
David Low

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.
Joy Page

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
Martha Beck

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Bryan Magee

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
Zhang Ziyi

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
Peter L. Berger

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

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
Paul Gillmor

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

The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.
Chen Shui-bian

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Charles Sanders Peirce

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
William Kingdon Clifford

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
John Keegan