The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason… — Dossie Easton Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I think of the New Testament story of the woman with an issue of blood--specifically of her hand reaching out into the… — Ashley mae Hoiland Copy Share Image
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I've learned there are a lot of people that don't want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn't fit their… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side.… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, 'I don't need this. I have money; I have fame;… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much… — Jerry Greenfield 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
“People believe in something, they themselves don’t know what it is, it isn’t a good thing, but it stands for a good… — Michael Davidow Copy Share Image
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It seems so much of my time and my energy have been focused on making or trying to make other people love… — Kimberly Kirberger Copy Share Image
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
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