Atheism Quote by Sidney Hook Download Open image “To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.” — Sidney Hook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Believe Deny Faith Positive atheism
I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“To believe something is to believe that it is true. And to believe that it is true entails believing that its denial is false.” — David Werther Copy Share Image
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“how can you claim that you are right when you can't prove it” — vermilion vera vice Copy Share Image
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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