Belief Quote by William James

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you…

— William James

Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches,…

— Fred Edwords

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge…

— Lisa Randall

“We do want progress in our knowledge and growth in our understanding, but we have to be careful not to be lured into the…

— R.C. Sproul

Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in…

— Daniel Levitin

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn…

— B. J. Palmer

Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already…

— Robert Crawford

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

— John Darnielle

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

— Hyman Rickover

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

— Rene Descartes