Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Rose

Our philosophy was to not let her get the ball, and we did. If she got the ball, we didn't want to let her get it off, and we did. We had no one who could stop her.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

B. F. Skinner

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

Bhagat Singh

...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.

C. S. Lewis

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

C. S. Lewis

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

C. S. Lewis

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

C. S. Lewis

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Bertrand Russell

What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.

Bertrand Russell

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

Charles Darwin

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

Charles Darwin

It is like confessing to a murder.

Charles Darwin

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

Charles Spurgeon

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Ayn Rand

... reason accepts no commandments.

Bertrand Russell

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

C. S. Lewis

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

Nick Bennenbroek

Part of the reason for the dollar's weakness today is positioning,

Lee Rainie

Part of the reason for that is resources,

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Graeme Smith

We never really got a reason from the umpires, I think that was probably the most frustrating part.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Andrew Strauss

I think there'll be a result and if we play like we have done there's no reason why we can't win it from this position,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.