William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
Quotes to Explore
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.
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The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
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I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.
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The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.
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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.
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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
