Belief Quote by Michel de Montaigne

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

— Michel de Montaigne

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is…

— Thomas Szasz

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

— Albert Camus

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

— Albert Camus

“I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it.…

— Albert Camus

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

— Albert Camus

We are a plague on the Earth.

— David Attenborough

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals…

— James Smithson

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught…

— Mike Wallace

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash…

— Albert Camus