In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees;… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
“So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable with my beliefs and with who I am. I honestly don't think about it that much. I just try… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough.… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
People don't get angry at you for shock value. People get angry at you when you affect something that is at their… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened.… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“They have never bothered to think the matter out for themselves, but have heard about Him from others, and have put belief… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child.… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom… — Herbert Hoover 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
Money says: Earn me, forget everything. Time says: Follow me, forget everything. Future says: Struggle for me, forget everything. GOD simply says:… — Lisa Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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