It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an… — Richard Mant Copy Share Image
The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder…no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this… — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Your principal motive on a movie set is to get the film made, but on a Woody Allen set, there's an ulterior… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive,… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive,… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory;… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past.… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
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