belief flexibility Quotes

Politicians are ready to suspend their beliefs or policy positions in the name of electoral success. When belief collides with public opinion, belief often goes.

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

People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.