If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
– Frans de Waal
Related Quotes:
- Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. – Frans de Waal
- It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves. – Frans de Waal
- Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. – Sharon Salzberg
- Our values define who we’re. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let’s go beyond lip service to defend our values… – Assegid Habtewold
- There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles Proteus Steinmetz
- Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask. – Mensah Oteh
- Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask. – Stephanie Mbida
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:’Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy – Christina Rossetti
- Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes. – Michael Hyatt
- Money makes a poor for few days rich. Education makes people rich without asking for money. – Alin Sav
- Asking ‘why’ only makes us feel hopeless. Asking ‘how’ points the way forward, and shows us what we must do – Sue Klebold
- Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven’t met too many children. – Rachel Held Evans
- Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions. – Josh Ross
- A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music – Georg Trakl
- Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A Man can Live two Weeks without Food,go two days without Water,and two minutes without Air,and apparently,an entire lifetime without a BRAIN. – Walter Thomas Jr
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human. – Julia Kent
- Society doesn’t have values. People have values. – Milton Friedman
- I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. -“ Panchali Draupadi – Krishna Udayasankar
- You only think women are inferior when your own mother is failure. – Frans Hanghome
- We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable. – Frans Kellendonk
- I heard wordOf bellied sailcloth,Creak of oars,And gold in Eastland.Then I smelledA smell remembered:Salt of sprayAnd black-pitched boat’s keel. – Frans G Bengtsson
- There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal. – Robin Hobb
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
- Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby – Agona Apell
- But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. – Max Lucado
- You’re not asking me for advice, you’re asking me for permission. – Steve Maraboli
- Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
- When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you. – Richelle E Goodrich
- There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult’s sense of pitch. – Edmund de Waal
- There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something. – Edmund de Waal
- With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. – Edmund de Waal
- With languages, you are at home anywhere. – Edward De Waal
- The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. – Edmund de Waal
- A person who values their goals actually values their achievements. – Onyi Anyado
- Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values! – Mehmet Murat ildan