Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Quotes to Explore
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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
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
Kailash Satyarthi
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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
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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
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
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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
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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
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
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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
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
Gail Parent
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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
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
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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
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
T. D. Jakes
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I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
Pat Buckley
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What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.
Patricia Heaton
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When young people implode, we judge them rather than saying they need help.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.
Michel Temer
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Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?
Ken Mehlman
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
William Hazlitt
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce