"Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity……" — Annie Besant
"Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock."
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Annie Besant
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122 Quotes by Annie Besant
Annie Besant has 122 quotes on this site.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from…
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That…
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who…
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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do…
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I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American…
— Michele Bachmann
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to…
— Christian Bale
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
— Hosea Ballou
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
— John Banville
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
— Henry Adams
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
— John Adams
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would…
— Dave Barry
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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