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.

  

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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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  • Language
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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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  • Bad
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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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  • Values
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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
  • Lifetime

• 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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  • Faith
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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

• Most beliefs about nature and man, which were not founded on scientific observation, have served directly or indirectly religious and social interests, and hence they have been protected by force against the criticisms of persons who have the inconvenient habit of using their reason

  

  J. B. Bury
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• Therefore,” he reasoned with himself, “it is love coming to claim me: I have been so long without love, hated at home, living in terror of my children’s lives: it is pure, tender, normal love.

  

  Christina Stead
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• Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

  

  Nellie McClung
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  • Citizenship
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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
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Relationship
  • Benefit
  • Republican Party

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Beliefs
  • Reasoned