I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas.… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
“Faith, belief, positive thinking, faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself, faith in life. This is the essence of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“Joan of Arc wrote, “I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and… — Ann Rinaldi Copy Share Image
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that… — Shamcey Supsup Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I dress in my 'uniform,' or my own dress code, which reflects my personal method and work ethic. My belief is that… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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