I think that the greatest thing we have in life is belief itself. I have worked for over 20 years with volunteers in various civic, cultural, and welfare efforts, and I have seen how contagious belief is. I have seen...
My life and experience are those of a professional musician. As a natural consequence, I believe in the value of arts. I believe in individual effort, in hard solitary work, in the importance of developing one’s own creative urge. As...
Socrates and his modest disclaimer of final knowledge, [spoken in Greek] “The only thing I know is that I don’t know anything,” intended to expose those of his fellow citizens who professed knowledge without realizing their fundamental ignorance. In his...
This I believe, that the life of human societies is governed by a law of progress, and I believe that progress in all times has had one single, moral objective: to establish the rights of man, of all men, to...
My husband and I have two boys in grade school and a daughter in junior high. I keep asking myself over and over again, how can we help them learn to believe in themselves and in the future when every...
It has become somewhat fashionable to be cynical about human progress, and one can hear voices telling us that we have been too lavish or hasty in our praise of human progress. It is true that two wars have occurred...
It’s easy to say, “I believe,” but not so easy to put in words the inner feelings that determine personal convictions. And we must remember that change—which Albert Hubbard called the “only permanent thing”—plays a continuing part in one’s evaluation...
I sometimes wonder whether we human beings believe only what we want to believe. And then I say to myself, “Do I believe only what I want to believe?” And that frightens me, and I say, “Oh no, surely not.”...
