It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness,… — Ernest A. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
[Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism.… — Linda Hirshman Copy Share Image
The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
My principles and core beliefs haven't changed in many years. You know, I don't change what I think with the wind just… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or… — Richard Sammel Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“One belief is that it is easier to die, than to live. I'd rather make friends with Death, as a means to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith.… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
“In a world where critical thinking skills are almost wholly absent, repetition effectively leapfrogs the cognitive portion of the brain. It helps… — Laura Bynum Copy Share Image
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for… — Francis Hughes Copy Share Image
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We not only do not believe that man is punished for his 'sins,' but emphatically state that there is no such thing… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that… — David Soul Copy Share Image
“If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of… — James Wood Copy Share Image
All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self… — Ryan Giggs Copy Share Image
Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image