This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I have a religion, my own religion, and I even have more religion than all of them, with their mummery and hocus-pocus.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the energy that the media and the Democrats are bringing to this is rooted in a belief… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness,… — Ernest A. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“[...] at this point the God-understanding stuff kind of makes him want to puke, from fear. Something you can't see or hear… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for… — Francis Hughes Copy Share Image
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or… — Richard Sammel Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“In a world where critical thinking skills are almost wholly absent, repetition effectively leapfrogs the cognitive portion of the brain. It helps… — Laura Bynum Copy Share Image
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“One belief is that it is easier to die, than to live. I'd rather make friends with Death, as a means to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith.… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One thing that I don't like about us as a people is that, when we don't have the same view as somebody,… — Brandon Marshall Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
Doubts about faith naturally happen when tragedies shred out faith. But that is what's so special about belief in Jesus and the… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
A mob pelting pilloried wrongdoers with rotten vegetables would seem to have little in common with one doing the same with 140-character… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image