Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Great
  • Age
  • Dream

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Unity

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

  

  Gail Parent
  • She
  • Mother
  • Feel

• I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Hopes

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Active

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Different
  • Faith
  • Religion

• What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Faith
  • Rest
  • Process

• I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the heart of its leaders. You can take away its territory. But you can't put a stake through the heart of the ideas, of the ideology, that sadly, tragically, still has some attraction for some small numbers in the Islamic faith.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Heart
  • Small
  • Faith

• Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but it understands within. It can feel within, which is very important.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Age

• It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.

  

  Adam Scott
  • World

• We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Today

• Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
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