Top 100 Wrong Belief Quotes
#1. Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti).
Dada Bhagwan
#2. As long as you are the owner ('I am Chandubhai and all this is mine'), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away.
Dada Bhagwan
#3. Until the 'wrong belief' leaves, we will continue to be robbed.
Dada Bhagwan
#4. This whole world is running solely on the foundation of 'wrong belief'. Why is there suffering in the world? It is because one has acquired the 'wrong belief'. With the 'right belief', there is no suffering at all.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. The whole world is immersed in 'wrong belief'. Even though 'belief' is wrong, one truly believes it is his own, doesn't he? He believes it to be completely true, doesn't he?
Dada Bhagwan
#6. The world is not a 'thing' (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul.
Dada Bhagwan
#7. Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.
Dada Bhagwan
#8. The worldly life is not the trouble, the 'wrong belief' is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble.
Dada Bhagwan
#9. Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and 'this' (akram vignan) is a science itself.
Dada Bhagwan
#10. To see things (vastu) 'as it is' in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief).
Dada Bhagwan
#11. When the wrong belief [of 'I am Chandubhai'] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result of the illusion [of 'I am Chandubhai'].
Dada Bhagwan
#12. The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief, it will go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#13. Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief.
Dada Bhagwan
#14. One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that 'they are mine...they are mine'.
Dada Bhagwan
#15. When the 'right belief' occurs, the world will appear quite different. 'Right belief' will take one towards the Eternal (Self), and the 'wrong belief' will take one towards the worldly life.
Dada Bhagwan
#16. There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.
Jim Gaffigan
#17. The belief that China is a global power is widespread, understandable, and wrong.
Anonymous
#18. I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen ... go wrong
George MacDonald Fraser
#19. Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#20. In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)
Alvin Plantinga
#22. That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.
Craig Lancaster
#23. The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
Walter Wink
#24. What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?
Chuck Austen
#25. Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal.
Abhijit Naskar
#26.
what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to control life so perfectly that we can keep bad things from happening.
Judith Warner
#27. When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!
Dada Bhagwan
#28. The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards.
Seth
#29. We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things.
Rachel Cohn
#30. What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one's own weight. It is to believe that 'I am Great'.
Dada Bhagwan
#31. There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.
Anne McCaffrey
#32. Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Frances Wright
#33. Manson didn't 'kill the sixties', as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression - what I've called 'giving way to strange forces' - some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.
Gary Lachman
#34. The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is the wrong beliefs we can't erase.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#36. There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.
Brunonia Barry
#37. I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
Albert Gallatin
#38. If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially.
Kelle Sparta
#39. It's never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
Jodi Picoult
#41. It is Spiritual wrong to relate the reality of life to the visible.Rather giving evidence of the invisible as been visible is the reality of life.Do you belief this?
Peter A. Azaare
#42. No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.
Thomas Paine
#43. I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.
Lucretia Mott
#44. The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
Niklaus Wirth
#45. My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.
Tim Howard
#46. I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#47. It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
Karl Popper
#48. In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them ... it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#49. It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership
men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
Harry S. Truman
#50. Belief and love,
a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. The worldly life means a puzzle of 'wrong beliefs'.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
Criss Jami
#53. Grandpa Eli had often told me that the real truth was seldom what we thought it was. "Most of the time," he said,"people choose to believe a story because it fills their need. At other times, they're afrad not to believe it. Then right or wrong, that belief becomes their truty.
Deborah Epperson
#54. Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it.
Justin Bienvenue
#55. The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity, is how I explain it to Sarah.
Jed McKenna
#56. Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right.
Ann Voskamp
#57. It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply ... let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.
Al Gore
#58. There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.
Mitch Kapor
#59. The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#61. I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.
Moby
#62. Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.
Robert Bellarmine
#63. All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck
#64. You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands
and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.
Diane Duane
#65. The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.
Joseph Prince
#66. There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.
Halle Berry
#67. What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?
Cassandra Clare
#68. Referring to obesity as a "form of malnutrition" comes with no moral judgments attached, no belief system, no veiled insinuations of gluttony and sloth. It merely says that something is wrong with the food supply and it might behoove us to find out what.
Gary Taubes
#69. There is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real. These qualities are free to everyone. In
Napoleon Hill
#70. The last thing I heard before falling asleep was, "Everything is okay now."
No matter how much I wanted to believe Stellan, I knew he was terribly wrong.
Markelle Grabo
#71. When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.
Lisa Randall
#72. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.
John Maynard Keynes
#73. If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.
Leo Tolstoy
#74. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
Plato
#75. It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
Anna Howard Shaw
#76. You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?
Richard Jeni
#77. 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
#78. Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
#79. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward De Bono
#80. It may be that in the belief of the possibility of redemption, people willingly do wrong. Redemption waits, like a side door, there in whatever court of judgement we eventually find ourselves. Not even the payment of a fine is demanded, simply the empty negotiation that absolves responsibility.
Steven Erikson
#81. What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science - information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won't.
Archibald MacLeish
#82. Belief is a dangerous thing," Norbert said. "It can blind you. It can consume you. It can make you unable to admit you're wrong.
Alex Siegel
#83. What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#85. Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
#86. The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.
Alex Gibney
#87. To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:
1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.
2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.
3. Charity is immoral.
4. Pay for your own fucking schools.
Matt Taibbi
#89. Anger-pride-deceit-greed; they are the ones giving you pain and only they are your enemies. There is no other enemy out there. There is only a nimit (evidentiary doer) outside. Wrong vision makes you accuse the nimit. When you attain the right belief (samkit), know that you have found the solution.
Dada Bhagwan
#90. Enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.
Sherry Turkle
#91. We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
Terry Jones
#92. It's much easier to tame a wild tiger with your bare hands than to convince someone who believes in something, no matter wrong or right.
Oliver Blade
#93. One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.
Alex Steffen
#94. As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.
Scott Adams
#95. When I was growing up and trying to get my foot on the ladder, I had the self-belief that my mother taught me, and it never occurred to me that anything could go wrong. I've learned life can't be like that.
Diana Quick
#96. Most people under the influence of the wrong and common belief which says that the sense of man's life is to grow a tree, build a house and bring up a son
Sunday Adelaja
#97. Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life ... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.
Tony Jeary
#98. Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.
Aldo Leopold
#99. I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.
George Eliot
#100. We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
Baba Kalyani
