Colin McGinn Quotes

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

Colin McGinn

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• People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Life
  • Work
  • Change

• I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Think
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• The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • School
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  • Dream

• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
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• Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Truth
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Man
  • Walking
  • Chaos

• I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Repression

• A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Up
  • Future
  • Single

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Leadership

• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Justice
  • Judge
  • Judging

• If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I'd be golden.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Fire
  • Breathing
  • Puppy

• When you talk to a young teenage girl, they're just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don't feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It's been built for men, and that's why they feel bad.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Men
  • Why

• When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Heart
  • Wish
  • Break

• Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Together
  • Nature

• I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio after shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"

  

  Anthony Heald
  • Trying
  • Coming Back
  • Rehearsals

• The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.

  

  Danielle Dutton
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Driving

• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

  

  Colin McGinn
  • Reason
  • Belief
  • Prove