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.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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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.
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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.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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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.
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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.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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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.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
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The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to hear of the Buddha's knowledge and insight and thus enable them to gain purity. They appear in the world because they wish to demonstrate the Buddha's knowledge and insight to the beings. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to understand. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to enter into the path of the Buddha's knowledge and insight.
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I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
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I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
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I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
