Belief

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  • His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
        Sir Arthur Conan Doyle   Best?
  • I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
        Themistocles   Best?
  • A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
        Homer   Best?
  • Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
        Vaclev Havel   Best?
  • George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.
        Al Gore   Best?
  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
        Honore De Balzac   Best?
  • I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Belief is the death of intelligence.
        Robert Anton Wilson   Best?
  • If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
        Daniel Webster   Best?
  • SUFFRAGE, n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Refusal to do so has the bad name of "incivism." The incivilian, however, cannot be properly arraigned for his crime, for there is no legitimate accuser. If the accuser is himself guilty he has no standing in the court of opinion; if not, he profits by the crime, for A's abstention from voting gives greater weight to the vote of B. By female suffrage is meant the right of a woman to vote as some man tells her to. It is based on female responsibility, which is somewhat limited. The woman most eager to jump out of her petticoat to assert her rights is first to jump back into it when threatened with a switching for misusing them.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
        Confucious   Best?
  • I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
        T.S. Elliot   Best?
  • Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
        Epicurus   Best?
  • Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
        Bartholomew   Best?
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
        Pooh's Little Instruction Book   Best?
  • Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
        Confucious   Best?
  • An idea is salvation by imagination.
        Frank Lloyd Wright   Best?
  • Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
        Thomas Hobbes   Best?
  • There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
        Denis Diderot   Best?
  • The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
        Agatha Christie   Best?
  • It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
        Harry S. Truman   Best?
  • "I have found that many books I like have given me morals. I was always one to follow on with intellegence from wise authors, maybe that is why the book appeals to me. Even Harry Potter teaches us the importance of working together as a team and to not let your enemies consume your life."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye." Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
        Carl Sagan   Best?
  • The sun only shines brighter, if you believe it can.
        Keni   Best?
  • If dracula can't see his reflection in the mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
        William Stanley Jevons   Best?

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