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Belief Quotes by Carl Sagan
- All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -…
- After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the…
- My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a…
- There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got…
- In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the…
- Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more…
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do…
- People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to…
- You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
- Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to…
- When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to…
More Belief Quotes
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach