Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
 ~famous sayings on Curmudgeons by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn’t trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.
 ~motivational quotations on Violence by Scott Adams

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
 ~wise belief sayings by Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
 ~saying by Woody Allen, Selections from the Allen Notebooks, Without Feathers, 1975

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.
 ~inspirational quote on Education by Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, September 1982

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
 ~good quotes about Life of Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
 ~famous sayings on Happiness by Robert S. Lynd