Agnostic Quote by Hu Shih Download Open image “Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.” — Hu Shih ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agnostic Humanist
I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“But unlike Machiavelli, Confucius was concerned more with the cultivation of social harmony than with the machinations of power. His themes were the principles… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Confucius said: “I do not see what use a man can be put to, whose word cannot be trusted.” —The Analects of Confucius, 2.22 Confucius” — Judith Boss Copy Share Image
“For millions upon millions of years, feelings were the best algorithms in the world. Hence in the days of Confucius, of Muhammad or of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ?… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Confucius, Lao Tsz, and Shakya, however, were all the wisest of sages. Each of them gave his teachings in a way different from the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that. — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.” — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
