Quotes having the keyword Belief
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
by Evelyn Waugh (Author, English , born in 1903) keywords: any, belief, called, clergyman, commit, draws, full, himself, modern, need, person, religious, salary , species That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
by John Webster (Playwright, English , born in 1578) keywords: belief, checks, defects, friend, great, his, into, man, rails, ruin , strongly It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
by Paul Wellstone (Politician, American , born in 1944) keywords: belief, develop, each, excesses, extremes, free, full, fully, give, her, his, inequality, lives, must, our, out, person, politics, potential, precious, reduced, take, time , why All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
by Thomas Wentworth (Politician, English , born in 1593) keywords: belief, between, disparity, each, exclude, practice, religions, rest, safe, same, show, till , tries A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: arbitrate, belief, condemned, decisions, essentially, formless, foundation, god, helps, live, lives, our, provide , without 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
by Naomi Wolf (Author, American , born in 1962) keywords: age, any, beauty, belief, best, currency, determined, dominance, economy, gold, intact, keeps, last, male, modern, politics, standard, system , west The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: being, belief, central, conviction, curious, existence, fact, far, few, human, inevitable, life, loneliness, men, myself, now, other, peculiar, phenomenon, rare, rests, solitary, upon , whole Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
by Chauncey Wright (Philosopher, American , born in 1830) keywords: agreements, belief, confidence, degree, evidence, high, kind, made, maintains, minds, only, ought, produce, produces, such, their, though, through , which Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
by Frances Wright (Writer, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: belief, causes, defined, existences, homage, may, religion, rendered, thus, unknown , unseen Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: action, actions, belief, consequences, deduce, first, force, imaginations, judgment, longer, look, make, our, place, religious, right, rule, sensations, square, their, then, trace , wrong The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
by Minoru Yamasaki (Architect, American , born in 1912) keywords: ability, belief, beliefs, center, cooperation, dedication, dignity, find, greatness, his, humanity, individual, living, man, men, need, peace, representation, symbol, through, trade , world
