"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

Belief, Beliefs, Dogs, Immortality, Heaven

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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Belief, Doubt, Hope, Mind

"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Belief, Religion, Infinity, Stars, Truth

"Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Belief, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Regret

"We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Belief, Service, Community, Morality, Atheism

"Loving is half of believing."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Belief, Love, Faith, Emotion

"It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Belief, Faith, Self-Worth, God, Morality

"People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Belief, Reason, Intelligence, Skepticism

"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Belief, Doubt, Faith, God, Existence

"A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

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"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

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"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."

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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

"Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief."

"We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community."

"Loving is half of believing."

"People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs."

"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."

"A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'."

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"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead."

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."