Ian Barbour Quotes

Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.

Ian Barbour

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• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Work
  • United States

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Light

• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Free
  • Faith

• Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Courage

• Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.

  

  Elaine Irwin
  • Kids
  • Sweet
  • Fake

• When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Home

• My life is an open book.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Life
  • Book

• I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People

• Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.

  

  James Meredith
  • Law
  • Practice

• You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and you'll feel like an idiot.

  

  George Ezra
  • Up
  • Writing

• My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Parents
  • Generous
  • Mum

• For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

  

  Martin Chemnitz
  • God
  • May

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• In the United States, the mainstream news outlets like to portray themselves as observers, content to let events play out without interference. But in Britain, where crusading journalistic campaigns are part of the tradition, it is far more acceptable for reporters to become active participants, with a specific outcome in mind.

  

  Jo Becker
  • Mind

• I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Important

• Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.

  

  Ian Barbour
  • God
  • Doubt
  • Illusions