Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 69
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
“Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
“A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.”
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”
“Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.”
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
“Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge.”
“Science is fact and thought giving strength to one another.”
“We do not construct the world from our experiences; we are aware of the world in our experiences.”
“This ability to order things into likes and unlikes is, I think, the foundation of human thought.”
“A good prediction is one which defines its area of uncertainty; a bad prediction ignores it.”
“Tolerance among scientists cannot be based on indifference, it must be based on respect.”
“The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.”
“Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.”