The less you know, the more you believe. ...
by Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono

It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
- Henry David Thoreau

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

Less is more.
- Pierre Seghir

There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu

Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie