The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Let no such man be trusted.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Only the educated are free.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

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

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.