Peter O'Toole Quotes
There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
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The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
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I'm not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.
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For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
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You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?
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There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.
