“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
(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
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
“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that… — Chrystos Copy Share Image
INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The legitimacy of something is not dependent upon my ability to explain it, for my inability to explain something often evidences the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that belief is the same as truth?" "Because sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we… — Gene Brewer Copy Share Image
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging that help is… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do,will tell you it can't be done.But all it takes is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?" His eyes narrow… — Rebecca Sparrow Copy Share Image
It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
