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Accept Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
- In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
- I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls…
- The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because…
- Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
- Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result…
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- 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