It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A… — Carson Cistulli Copy Share Image
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice. — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the… — Michael Jensen Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward:… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
