Robert Buettner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.
-- Robert Buettner

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The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
-- Robert Buettner

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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

Robert Buettner famous quotes

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