How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Nothing motivates like success. While academics, consultants and gurus are preoccupied with coming up with great insights and seminal ideas, usually they… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive rebellion is. The slaughter… — Connilyn Cossette Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal… — John Granger Copy Share Image
I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I definitely think there's a lot of pressure for teenaged girls and guys to hook up on prom. I think it comes… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
People seem very arrogant when they say 'I'm right and you're wrong', but in practice we all believe we're right. We have… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No,… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
We do not force things on people. That's not how we want things to eventuate. That's not how we want things to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
“When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them… — Evadne Price Copy Share Image
I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe… — Robin Blaser Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I had a massive heart attack, and in my belief that I was close to dying, I took the opportunity to teach… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have… — George Carlin Copy Share Image