Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Crawford

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Bill Crawford

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Bernard Beckett

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Bill Vaughan

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Martin Charnin

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

Cameron Crowe

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Dick Thornburgh

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Denis Hayes

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Walter Benjamin

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

John Cornyn

Just because we are curious does not mean that our curiosity should be satisfied,

Bertrand Russell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Tom Hatch

It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Chris Landsea

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.

Daniel Cohen

When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear.

Blaise Pascal

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Celia Green

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Baha'u'llah

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Baruch Spinoza

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Doris Lessing

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Andre Malraux

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.