Top 100 Knowledge Religion Quotes
#1. Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.
Rajneesh
#2. The position of an art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.
Ayn Rand
#3. Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise.
(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)
Anonymous
#4. If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.
Dan Barker
#5. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.
Ramakrishna
#6. ...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.
Socrates
#7. I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.
H.P. Lovecraft
#8. I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.
William H. Macy
#10. Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.
Criss Jami
#11. In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
Nathaniel Branden
#12. They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.
Mulla Sadra
#13. That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.
Chanakya
#14. 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farrer
#15. Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
Paul Davies
#16. We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.
Chris Hedges
#17. Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.
Anonymous
#18. Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, but
religious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive.
Michael Moorcock
#20. The Bible, of course, for aside from religion there is much to be learned of men and their ways in the Bible. It is also a source of comments made of references and figures of speech. No man could consider himself educated without some knowledge of it.
Louis L'Amour
#21. We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. I believe only in the religion which spreads the word of nonjudgmental love.
Debasish Mridha
#23. A little or superficial knowledge may incline a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth him back to religion.
Anonymous
#24. Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.
Idries Shah
#25. A Culture based on superstitions will do worse than one based on scientific knowledge and rational thoughts
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#26. It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.
Santosh Kalwar
#27. But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#28. It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
Horatius Bonar
#29. It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed
Idries Shah
#30. I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
Baruch Spinoza
#31. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther
#32. When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.
Ibn Hazm
#33. The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion
Stephen Jay Gould
#35. Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#36. I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
Suzy Kassem
#37. I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.
George H. Smith
#38. You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.
James Randall Robison
#39. Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion
a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Joseph Addison
#40. I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Will Smith
#41. When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Joseph Lancaster
#42. [When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.
Richard P. Feynman
#43. The trouble with true faith is that it is 100% sure and the trouble with scientific knowledge is that it isn't!
David Harold Chester
#44. How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?
Timothy Keller
#45. When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple
Guruji Naushir
#46. Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling ... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#47. That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Blaise Pascal
#48. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.
A.W. Tozer
#49. Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government ... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.
Thomas Jefferson
#50. Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.
John Irving
#51. Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.
Lionel Suggs
#52. How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?
Jake Jesser
#53. Scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.
Don Cupitt
#54. We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
Christopher Hitchens
#55. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.
John Gray
#56. Blind faith in belief-system, ideologies, doctrine or dogma can never set us free. Only the knowledge of truth can liberate us from the slavery of doctrine, dogmas, blind faiths and religious sects.
Banani Ray
#57. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.
David Silverman
#58. To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
Bonaventure
#59. Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of life?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#60. The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#61. Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
Emmett F. Fields
#62. I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
Mandy Moore
#63. Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
Stefan Molyneux
#64. You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
Carl Sagan
#65. The Greeks, as in the case of Aristotle, whose interpretation of African teachings would, some have said, lead to the foundation of Islam as as a religion, would steal what texts they could, burn the rest and destroy the very place from which all knowledge first came from.
Rick Duncan
#66. In replacing religion as the final source of knowledge in popular estimation, science begins to look a bit like another religion itself.
Dalai Lama XIV
#67. There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams
#69. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#70. If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
Angelus Silesius
#71. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
Dalai Lama
#72. The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archaeology.
Cyril Bailey
#73. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#75. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
Swami Vivekananda
#76. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
Jane Smiley
#77. Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
Emile Durkheim
#78. All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador Dali
#79. Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.
Debasish Mridha
#80. Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Albert Einstein
#81. Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
Idries Shah
#82. Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart
the moral nature
was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#83. The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Confucius
#84. Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.
Albert Einstein
#85. Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.
Anonymous
#86. We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
Cameron Conaway
#87. The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
Charles Darwin
#88. Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Martin Luther
#89. Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
Paul D. Boyer
#90. My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. Religion is most often a curse;
it teaches us to hate others.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.
Baruch Spinoza
#93. How will it end? ... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin ...
Carl H. Claudy
#95. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.
Joshua Romqn
#96. A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
#97. We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the Great Romance we once had. But now I think the knowledge of Elyon is starting to work its way into me again
in both realities ... If Elyon's real there, surely God must be real here.
Ted Dekker
#98. But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying.
Walter Miller
#100. Love is the best religion;
it only cares and never kills anyone.
Debasish Mridha
