Anthony Collins Quotes

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

Anthony Collins

• Nature
• Understanding
• Force
• Judging
• Evidence
• Proposition
• Endeavoring

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Football

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Food
  • Language
  • Dead

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Kids
  • You
  • Allergic

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • West
  • Iran

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everybody
  • Campaign
  • Must

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Week

• I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• 'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Brotherhood

• I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Education

• Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci, but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that drives us to create a legacy.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Pride

• By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

  

  Anthony Collins
  • Nature
  • Understanding
  • Force