It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“The facts themselves do not compel belief. God will not force us to trust Him. God gives us the ability to respond… — Holly Ordway Copy Share Image
Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
“But faith is not belief in the history of Christ, as the godless think, but belief in the purpose of Christ’s incarnation,… — Philip Melanchthon Copy Share Image
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Your religious beliefs typically depend on the community in which you were raised or live. The spiritual experiences of people in ancient… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are… — Gordon Livingston Copy Share Image
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The belief in God, is not a matter of common sense or logic or argument, but of feeling. it is as impossible… — Somerset W. Maugham Copy Share Image
The ability to help others gain insights seems very important to me, and I think one of the most effective, but most… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized;… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If you're wealthy like Donald Trump is, and you have a preacher who says your wealth is a sign God approves of… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image