Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard; never get muddled.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Science tells theology about the structure and history of the universe and its evolutionary nature. Religious insight can set the laws of nature in a more profound context of understanding, so that their deep order, rational beauty and anthropic fine-tuning become intelligible.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward