Ahad Ha'am Quotes

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.

I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

I had lost faith in biography.

For years we have been giving their political leadership the benefit of the doubt, and now only doubt remains.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

I've been called so many names and been written off by so many people who just say, 'Whatever happened to this guy?'

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

When I say I wasn't a 'meant to be' guy, I've almost been jaded in the sport, where I don't believe in anything.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.