I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: work belief luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't. —Michael Gorelick More about this quote Tags: truth God belief despair divinity atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person who believes … that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: God belief desire denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was quite incomprehensible to me …why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace. " —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: God belief prayer animals blessing human beings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: belief mankind passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. —Richard Feynman More about this quote Tags: knowledge belief sceince scientist dumb Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: knowledge belief lies lying intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. —William Ralph Inge More about this quote Tags: reality belief faith values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: God humor belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. —Joseph Conrad More about this quote Tags: humanity evil belief men wickedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. —Natalie Goldberg More about this quote Tags: ignorance belief relaxation stress emergency calm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: friendship friends time belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? —Leo Durocher More about this quote Tags: rules belief laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. —Marcel Duchamp More about this quote Tags: art belief artists Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. —Thomas Wolfe More about this quote Tags: art belief culture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email