Belief

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  • Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
        John Adams   Best?
  • Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
        Proverb   Best?
  • What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
        Ray Bradbury   Best?
  • Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year.
        Victor Borges   Best?
  • If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
        Unknown   Best?
  • My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
        Christopher Morley   Best?
  • In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
        Pliny the Elder   Best?
  • Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
        Elbert Hubbard   Best?
  • It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
        H. P. Lovecraft   Best?
  • What I have shown you is reality. What you remember...That is the illusion.
        Sephiroth   Best?
  • "They say actions speak louder than words. But surely actions are inspired with the words they come with? After all we do not just hold a ring out and expect a 'yes' we have to speak the beautiful words also. Words are beauty too."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • It was said that boys should go on their first sea voyage at the age of ten, but surely this notion was never put forth by anyone's mother. If the bay were to be raised one degree in temperature for every woman who had lost the man or child she loved at sea, the water would have boiled, throwing off steam even in the dead of winter, poaching the bluefish and herings as they swam.
        Alice Hoffman   Best?
  • The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
        Viktor E. Frankl   Best?
  • Blind belief is dangerous.
        Kenyan Proverb   Best?
  • A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
        Carl Sandburg   Best?
  • The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.
        Michelangelo   Best?
  • If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
        Phil Donahue   Best?
  • Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
        Robert Englund   Best?
  • Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that `violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
        Alan Alda   Best?
  • Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
        Phaedrus   Best?

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