Belief is the enemy of a storyteller

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the…

— Rajneesh

“Belief is the enemy.”

— John A. Keel

“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what…

— C.S. Lewis

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that…

— Rabih Alameddine

There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself,…

— William J. Duiker

The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends…

— Clement Attlee

In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have…

— Anonymous

“Belief in the Law of Small Numbers.”

— Daniel Kahneman

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not…

— Nathaniel Branden

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's…

— LeRoy Neiman

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves…

— J. Paul Getty

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

“She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God.…

— Allegra Goodman

“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by…

— Arthur W. Pink

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

— Alice Englert