Sam Harris Quotes

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness. When you have a group of people that have the intention and the capacity, talent, and intelligence to actualize those intentions, then you have something really powerful.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.