Andrew Stockdale Quotes & Sayings

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself. — S.L. Wallace

Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who would have challenged my ideology. — Thomas C. Oden

Find what inspires you and act on that inspiration each day. — Mensah Oteh

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. — Plato

I think of my second lost compass sinking to the bottom of the river, like the stone it was before Ky changed it. — Ally Condie

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. — Veronica Roth

Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly. But even then, you don't want to trust them more than me. — William Paul Young

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. — Charles Spurgeon

Americans are notoriously ill-informed about evolution. A recent Gallup poll (June 1993) discovered that 47 percent of adult Americans believe that Homo sapiens is a species created by God less than ten thousand years ago. — Daniel C. Dennett