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ignorance knowing doubt
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me. Richard P. Feynman
ignorance science thinking
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Richard P. Feynman
ignorance reason-why consciousness
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Richard Hooker
ignorance weakness ill
God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright. Richard Hooker
ignorance intelligence misled
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. Richard Whately
ignorance evil genius
Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind. Richelle Mead
ignorance greek might
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." Tryon Edwards
ignorance atheism patterns
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. Richard Rohr
ignorance simple religion
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. Evolution is not some recondite backwater of science, ignorance of which would be pardonable. It is the stunningly simple but elegant explanation of our very existence and the existence of every living creature on the planet. Richard Dawkins
simple simply suggest
I think it is too simple to suggest that it's simply Mr. Harper's fault. Joe Clark
simple order wish
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible. Richard P. Feynman
simple envy may
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy. Richard John Neuhaus
simple luxury evil
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.... Richard Hofstadter
simple difficult science-and-religion
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. Richard Dawkins
simple needs individual
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right. Richard Dawkins
simple chinese handcuffs
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. Rick Riordan
simple mind relax
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. William Shenstone
simple thinking despair
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless. William Morris Hunt
religions standard wants
He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin. Matt Stone
religion atheism cosmos
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. Richard Dawkins
religion firsts needs
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted. William James
religion needs heavenly
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. William Cowper
religion unhappy dangerous
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy. Robert Southey
religion atheism firsts
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. Sandra Day O'Connor
religion gone disunity
Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity. Neale Donald Walsch
religion world neurosis
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Marcel Proust
religion easier dies
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges