Jonathan Swift Quotes

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Jonathan Swift

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• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

  

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• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

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• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

  

  Edmund Morgan
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• The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

  

  J. D. Pardo
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• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  

  Hans Eysenck
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• Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

  

  Debbie Ford
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• I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

  

  Alan Alda
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• A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Emotional
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• I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.

  

  Aaron Siskind
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• My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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• And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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  • I Know

• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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  • Career
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• In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

  

  Mia Kirshner
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• If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Beliefs
  • Reasoned