Belief

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  • Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
        Jonathan Berry   Best?
  • I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
        Pat Conroy   Best?
  • The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
        Robert Lynd   Best?
  • I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
        William James   Best?
  • My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
        Saint Augustine   Best?
  • Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
        Paul Theroux   Best?
  • Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
        Edgar Watson Howe   Best?
  • Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
        Jean Francois Revel   Best?
  • A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
        Hannah Whitall Smith   Best?
  • I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.
        Jimi Hendrix   Best?
  • It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.
        Garrison Keillor   Best?
  • Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.
        Judge Learned Hand   Best?
  • The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
        Joesph Conrad   Best?
  • I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
        William Henry Harrison   Best?
  • The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
        Paul Eldridge   Best?
  • The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
        Paula Poundstone   Best?
  • A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
        Daniel Webster   Best?
  • The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
        Nicholas Butler   Best?
  • I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
        Joan Baez   Best?
  • You can absolutely do anything if you have the belief and the desire. You're going to have setbacks, but it's important to get back up and keep going. It's a journey.
        Tara Nott   Best?
  • Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  • All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
        Jeff Melvoin   Best?
  • I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
        Ovid   Best?
  • And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
        Neil Gaiman   Best?
  • America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
        Louis D. Brandeis   Best?
  • It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
        Henry James   Best?
  • Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
        Ruben Studdard   Best?
  • Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
        Kent Nerburn   Best?
  • If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
        Kathleen Norris   Best?
  • I'll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you've gone over to the Dark Side. But I'll be fine. That's the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.
        James Lileks   Best?
  • ...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings...
        Immanuel Kant   Best?
  • I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?

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