Quotes About Belief

It is so much easier to believe than to think; it is astounding how much more believing is done than thinking.

if it believes that it knows the truth and that it need not question its beliefs, then that society is more likely to enforce rigid decrees, and less likely to change. If it leaves room for doubt about the truth, it is more likely to be free and open. In

The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

The question "why" is too deep for science. Science instead believes it can only learn "how" something occurs.

Religion is inherently conservative; even one proposing a new God only creates a new order. The question "why" is too deep for science. Science instead believes it can only learn "how" something occurs.

This answer involves not simply academic pursuits; it affects how a society governs itself, its structure, how its citizens live. If a society does set Goethe's "Word . . . supremely high," if it believes that it knows the truth and that it need not question its beliefs, then that society is more likely to enforce rigid decrees, and less likely to change. If it leaves room for doubt about the truth, it is more likely to be free and

In China the wind was originally regarded as a demon that caused illness

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

we underestimate what we can achieve. So from the start, we need to avoid putting limitations on our expectations.

There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

A form of self-delusion.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?