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Accept Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to…
- If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will…
- I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
More Accept Quotes
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the… — Antonio Banderas
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams
- But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. — Abu Bakar Bashir
- Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. — Charles Baudelaire
- During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending… — Bob Beauprez
- I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. — Simone de Beauvoir