In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you… — Buck Rodgers Copy Share Image
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There's a… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and… — Joe Flaherty Copy Share Image
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith in what you can not see is a sign of belief, that a reward is coming and when it comes you'll… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the… — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes,… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The idea that we should check on our unreflective belief acquisition sounds great, but we need to know whether the processes of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“Giving Thanks unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have, no matter how little, into more than enough. It turns… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
I believe in karma what you give is what you get returned, I believe you can't appreciate real love till you've been… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is not an action, it is a vision. Worldly people’s vision is towards worldly life whereas ‘this’ is a spiritual vision.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
