Freethinker Quote by Laurence Sterne Download Open image “Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.” — Laurence Sterne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freethinker Infidelity Inspirational Thinking
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
“Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is born of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what we carve… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
