Apathy Quote by Lesslie Newbigin

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Once a person believes - really believes - that certain ideas can lead to eternal happiness, or to its antithesis, he cannot tolerate the…

— Sam Harris

“Beliefs are things to be cherished but we cannot be intolerant of others whose beliefs we disagree with. That intolerance can lead to war…

— Peter Tremayne

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?”

— Jane Austen

“Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief; and that to avoid looking into the…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that…

— William James

“A limiting belief is practically invisible to us – it hides in habit and custom and mores. It is the way we live. To…

— Linda Armstrong

“The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions…

— Anonymous

“So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.”

— Seneca

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach