Best belief & ignorance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.”

Mind Made Reason Seems Belief Ignorance Simplicity Conviction Impression Attributes Facility

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.”

Men Believe Belief Easy Ignorance Credit Gentleness Dexterity

Book:The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.”

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.”

War Together Science Humanity Belief Nations Ignorance Accomplish Ignorant Triumph Accomplishment Constructs Unconquerable

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.”

Would Be Religion Faith Belief Impossible Ignorance Built Definitions Have Faith

Book:More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

Source: More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.”

Men Way Mind Believe Facts Belief Imagination Our Lives Risk Ignorance Cells Locked Flash Hypothesis Intuitive Seals

Author:Lillian Smith

“The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.”

Men Belief Quality Opinion Ignorance Obedience Plague Suitable

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

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