If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer… — Leonard Bloomfield Copy Share Image
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything significant without believing in himself… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt,… — Miguel De Unamuno Copy Share Image
In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These… — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I was raised within a belief system that taught me the world was fixed, predestined to evolve along a certain path. My… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It starts with a dream.Add faith,it becomes belief, add action to belief it becomes a part of life,add preservance to part of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Don't worry about Everybody's views of you. Opinions are like toilets.. everybody has one just some need a good flush!!!!! As To… — Cole Rico Copy Share Image
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised… — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs.… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
“As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“...if vision is restricted to a belief system, or if it is divorced from all belief systems, it ceases to be vision.… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century prided itself on invalidating the metaphysical. Doubts about the afterlife arose even as so-called nonbelievers attempted to locate surrogates… — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image