“Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural… — U Thant Copy Share Image
I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically by creating it in… — Seth Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains.… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I feel it’s okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don’t stay angry. It takes courage to believe… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When… — Roger Delano Hinkins Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“The belief that every living thing has an individual soul is called animism. (Anima, which means 'soul,' is also the root of… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“Not only do we become what we think about most, but the world also becomes what we most think about. Those who… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
For me, water means a lot of things. It's my belief that human beings are just like plants. They can't live without… — Tsai Ming-liang Copy Share Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.' Listen, I'm… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
“It takes the trust of God for things that exist, to wait on him for the evidence of things that do not… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
In terms of how Iranians see the U.S. government, that's a difficult question. But in terms of how Iranians see Americans, there… — Jason Rezaian Copy Share Image
The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established…These decisions enunciate a… — J. Edward Day Copy Share Image
The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence.… — Eddie Russo Copy Share Image
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source)… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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