Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives,… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
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Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
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Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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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
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
![“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place, they were educated to believe it, and they would have believed anything else in the same manner . There are…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_that-many-good-men-have-believed-this-st_2075778.jpg)
