It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I believe you know my quest from its beginning to its end, and that I seed to learn my parentage. "Parentage?" said… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I knew I was gay at 18, but to come out then would have meant I would not have achieved what I… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
“Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing,… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in… — Red Adair Copy Share Image
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“Whether you believe in the sun or a stone or a god or the moon or a guru, whatever you believe in,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression.… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Interesting Avil, the priests and the acolytes of the various religions and temples of Torea build their whole lives on a lie.… — Martyn Stanley Copy Share Image
We need some standard that will determine how likely a belief is to be true given just that it is stored in… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most… — John Tuley Copy Share Image
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
Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see… — Bono Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Your ship was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog... coming around the cape she appeared in a… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image