4,325 Quotes About Belief

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Your level of ignorance is based on what you believe you know and your ego.

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).

We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Am I a fraud, then, or a scholar? I am both, of course, as we all are. Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment.