Biography Quote by Adam Gopnik

“They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have always heard…

— John Stuart Mill

“One's manner of living, is a matter of life”

— Elio Melo

“If we have no idea what we believe in, we'll go along with anything. Truth takes courage. Courage to stand up for what we…

— A.C. Ping

“The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— Anonymous

“Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually…

— R.C. Sproul

“Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical”

— Ki Longfellow

“The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are.”

— Paulo Coelho

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

— Voltaire

“For, besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature: it is easy to convince them of something, but difficult to hold them…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“(M)emories are often amalgams of truth and fiction, sewn together in our heads by our subconscious to support our personal beliefs about the world.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

“look deeper than the behavior, into the heart of the gossip.”

— Matthew C. Mitchell

“how hollow and futile life can be when it's founded on a false belief in continuity and permanence.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche