Os Guinness Quotes

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.

Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.