Quotes of: Common-belief Keyword

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Frances Wright

The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave us blind and groping in the dark. If I believe in one proposition, I have become locked behind the door of that belief, and all other doors to learni...

Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

You don't gain more authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have much authority.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede belief. But the entire clash stems from a misapprehensio...

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

The Alchemists’ beliefs are my beliefs,” I say quickly. She arched an eyebrow. “Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.” I’d never thought about it that way before, but I suddenly hoped desperately that her words were tru...

The Indigo Spell

Deep Song Belief is what buries us—that & the belief in belief— No longer do I trust liltlessness —leeward is the world's way—Go on plunge in —the lungs will let us float. Joy is the mile- high ledge the leap—a breath above the lip of the...

Jelly Roll

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Wayne Brady

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

Love

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Wylie

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Harold Washington

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Cynthia McKinney

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

Emotional baggage,” which is carried over from the past, colors our perceptions. Likewise, past conclusions and beliefs, based on reasoning that may or may not have been accurate, also tint our perception of reality. Retaining our capacity for reas...

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

Nathan Wolfe

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

Alan Lightman

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

Frederich Nietzsche

Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness: first, that beliefs are the result of conditions; second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions; and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not ...

H.L. Mencken

Common goods, no goods.

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