Belief Quote by William James

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

— Thomas Carlyle

“money is a living moving force; leave it still, and it accumulates; expend it, and it gratifies every wish; save it, and that is…

— H. Rider Haggard

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

— Charles Stanley

“Like Rousseau, Hegel appreciated quite early on that in modern commercial societies, individuals' desires and needs were generated by the desires and needs of…

— Darrin M. McMahon

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

— Russell M. Nelson

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining,…

— Gore Vidal

“Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud…

— William James

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…

— Marcel Proust

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity…

— Richard Doll