Free beliefs sayings, quotes and quotations
I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
~weather sayings or beliefs by Richard Phillips Feynman
There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.
~inspirational sayings about Education quotes by Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, September 1982
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it
~beliefs quotes by Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
~famous quotes about Reality by David G. Myers, Social Psychology
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
~beliefs sayings by Frank A. Clark
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
~weather sayings or beliefs by Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
~inspirational sayings about Truth quotes by Stopford Brooke
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
~beliefs quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
~famous quotes about Religion by John F. Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
~beliefs sayings by Mark Twain
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
~weather sayings or beliefs by Orson Scott Card
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World
Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the Western worldview.... A basic Christian belief was that God gave humans dominion over creation, with the freedom to use the environment as they saw fit. Another important Judeo-Christian belief predicted that God would bring a cataclysmic end to the Earth sometime in the future. One interpretation of this belief is that the Earth is only a temporary way station on the soul's journey to the afterlife. Because these beliefs tended to devalue the natural world, they fostered attitudes and behaviors that had a negative effect on the environment.
~beliefs quotes by Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996
What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their beliefs. The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.
~famous quotes about Conformity by Michael Crichton, The Lost World
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
~weather sayings or beliefs by Saint Augustine
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
~good sayings about Love by Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did
~beliefs quotes by Toni Cade Bambara
Horse sense, n.: Stable thinking.
~motivational quotes about Horses sayings by Author Unknown
Every path hath a puddle
~beliefs sayings by George Herbert, "Jacula Prudentum"
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
~weather sayings or beliefs by Aristotle
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
~good sayings about Men by Rita Mae Brown
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
~beliefs quotes by Voltaire
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
~motivational quotes about Golf sayings by Tiger Woods
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
~beliefs sayings by Frank O'Connor
There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a flush. It is enough to make one ashamed of the species.
~weather sayings or beliefs by Mark Twain
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
~good sayings about Men by Ian Fleming
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
~beliefs quotes by R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~motivational quotes about Relationships sayings by Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
~beliefs sayings by Gloria Steinem
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
~weather sayings or beliefs by Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
~good sayings about Advice by William Shakespeare
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
~beliefs quotes by Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence
~motivational quotes about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day sayings by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Poverty in youth is uncomfortable, but of all the incentives for getting rich, poverty in youth tops the list.
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