You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Natural History of Intellect (1893)
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Author: Albert Einstein
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Author: Albert Einstein
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
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Given character and healthy imagination, it is possible to reconstruct this world of sin and misery into a veritable paradise.
Author: Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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Always believe in yourself. Create your own dreams and follow them until they are reality.
Author: A. Neilen
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Since man is made of clay, he can never be completely pure. Since clay is basically foul, how can humans escape their basic nature? Purity does not lie in rituals, nor can human nature be changed by effort. Those who love God and remain conscious only
Author: Woody Allen
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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They can conquer who believe they can.
Author: Virgil
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Other than three things ........ Birth, Marriage and Death God graced mankind to decide their own fate.
Author: Anonymous
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Pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall.
Author: Anonymous
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Author: Mark Twain
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Author: Gerry Spence
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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Author: Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
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