Conflicting Beliefs Quotes

Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

'Tis a strange thing, … that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.

Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them.

I believe in God, but I also believe in jinxes.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

The world is full of contradiction.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.

What is a problem is that you tell the President something that contradicts what he believes.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

My father was a very contradictory man.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

I'm full of contradictions.