Atheism Quote by Robert E Lane

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has…

— Jane Addams

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to…

— Fulton J. Sheen

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and…

— Stephen Toulmin

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

— Kathleen Norris

The problem of moral change would appear to be one of presenting stimuli which are both sufficiently incongruous as to stimulate conflict in the…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each…

— Midge Decter

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

— David Gemmell

The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions…

— Walter Bagehot

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that…

— John P. Kotter