Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tryon Edwards

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Napoleon Hill

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Mark Twain

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

Marquis de Sade

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Miroslav Volf

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Oscar Wilde

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

Mark Twain

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Lavrenti Lopes

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sarah Silverman

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

Robert Duvall

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Richard Rohr

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Tucker Carlson

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Whately

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Richard Bach

So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.