Quotes About False Beliefs

#1. It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Jeffrey Kluger

#2. Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism ... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

Harry S. Truman

#3. Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you happy. Only the release from these false beliefs can bring you true happiness and lasting peace.

David Hoffmeister

#4. t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Human beings have a great capacity for sticking to false beliefs with great passion and tenacity,

Bruce H. Lipton

#6. Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched - once they've become tribal badges of honor - are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people.

Joshua D. Greene

#7. The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

Wayne Dyer

#8. Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.

Raymond Charles Barker

#9. The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.

John Dewey

#10. False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

Richard Dawkins

#11. Most of us are living in a prison of our fixed, false beliefs and never try to find the door to get out to see and feel the beauty of life, even when the door is wide open and welcoming.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Stefan Molyneux

#13. It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness.

Debasish Mridha

#14. 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

#15. A lie believed acts as truth until it is neutralized. The false beliefs you hold about your life become the personal laws of your life, holding you prisoner until you break your agreement with them.

Derek Rydall

#16. When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition.

Debasish Mridha

#17. We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

Anthony De Mello

#19. We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.

Miguel Ruiz

#20. The most important and most difficult thing that you can change is your fixed false beliefs.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

Errol Morris

#23. Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

Henry Rosovsky

#24. Before believing something, check the facts. False beliefs can infect and affect the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#25. There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony De Mello

#26. One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that AIPAC has been so successful in suppressing criticism has lent some credence to such false beliefs.

George Soros

#27. The notion that we systematically adopt false beliefs to "protect the self" is illogical when you consider that whatever the mind is designed to do, it must be to get things done, not to make us happy.

Robert Kurzban

#28. We are born perfect, full of love, potential, self-faith and brilliance. But from the moment we are born, we begin to walk away from our authentic nature and take on the false beliefs, limiting assumptions and fears of the world around us.

Robin S. Sharma

#29. I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

Carlos Santana

#30. Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.

Debasish Mridha

#31. There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

Wayne Dyer

#32. Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

Craig Groeschel

#33. Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

Ludwig Von Mises

#34. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

William James

#37. Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

Michael Beckwith

#38. What chimps don't seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don't have a theory of mind that accounts for actions driven by beliefs in conflict with reality. And really, who lacking that will ever be able to navigate the human world?

Karen Joy Fowler

#39. Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements
and this is untrue.

Richard Rhodes

#40. A reasonable person believes, in short, that each of his beliefs is true and that some of them are false.

Jordan Ellenberg

#41. Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.

Barry Long

#42. A true religious person should not think that "my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss.

Abhijit Naskar

#43. Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

E. O. Wilson

#44. We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

Henry George

#46. Our minds have been poisoned and our accepted beliefs are unnatural and artificial.

Bryant McGill

#47. Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#48. When you venture into an unexplored territory, you can prove all previously held beliefs false.

Sipendr

#49. The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming ... (some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.

Neil Postman

#50. He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs.

H.L. Mencken

#51. The student of prehistoric man ... cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.

Arthur Keith

#52. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Criss Jami

#53. It's been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#54. If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

George Gaylord Simpson