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  I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
 ~weather sayings or beliefs by Richard Phillips Feynman

  There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.
 ~inspirational sayings about Education quotes by Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, September 1982

  The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it
 ~beliefs quotes by Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999

  There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
 ~famous quotes about Reality by David G. Myers, Social Psychology

  There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
 ~beliefs sayings by Frank A. Clark

  The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
 ~weather sayings or beliefs by Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999

  If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
 ~inspirational sayings about Truth quotes by Stopford Brooke

  We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
 ~beliefs quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

  Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
 ~famous quotes about Religion by John F. Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis and Psychotherapy

  In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
 ~beliefs sayings by Mark Twain

  This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
 ~weather sayings or beliefs by Orson Scott Card

  It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.
 ~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World

  Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the Western worldview.... A basic Christian belief was that God gave humans dominion over creation, with the freedom to use the environment as they saw fit. Another important Judeo-Christian belief predicted that God would bring a cataclysmic end to the Earth sometime in the future. One interpretation of this belief is that the Earth is only a temporary way station on the soul's journey to the afterlife. Because these beliefs tended to devalue the natural world, they fostered attitudes and behaviors that had a negative effect on the environment.
 ~beliefs quotes by Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996

  What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their beliefs. The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.
 ~famous quotes about Conformity by Michael Crichton, The Lost World

   Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
 ~weather sayings or beliefs by Andy Rooney

   Yes, we are able!
 ~good sayings about Success by Cesar Chavez

   I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
 ~beliefs quotes by Gilda Radner

   A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
 ~motivational quotes about Sleep sayings by Irish Proverb

   Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion
 ~beliefs sayings by Author Unknown

   What we are speaks so loudly it drowns out what we say.
 ~weather sayings or beliefs by

   Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
 ~good sayings about Age by Oliver Wendell Holmes

   Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
 ~beliefs quotes by Author Unknown

   Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true
 ~motivational quotes about Adversity sayings by Mr. Spock, Star Trek

   That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
 ~beliefs sayings by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
 ~weather sayings or beliefs by John A. Simone, Sr.

   The only thing wrong with being an atheist is that there's nobody to talk to during an orgasm.
 ~good sayings about Sex by Author Unknown

   In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
 ~beliefs quotes by Proverb

   Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
 ~motivational quotes about Appearance sayings by Lord Chesterfield

   As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
 ~beliefs sayings by Clarence Darrow

   Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
 ~weather sayings or beliefs by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.
 ~good sayings about Grandparents by Dave Barry

   I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
 ~beliefs quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted, 14 August 1966

   Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
 ~motivational quotes about Dancing sayings by Martha Graham

   God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.
 ~beliefs sayings by Author Unknown

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