Quotes About Worldview

#1. Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth - give berth to your worldview.

Kamini Arichandran

#2. Matthew Boylan, former NASA operational graphics manager, worked for years creating photo-realistic computer graphics for NASA. Now a vocal Flat-Earther, Boylan claims that NASA's sole reason for existence is to propagandize the public and promote this false ball-Earth heliocentric worldview.

Eric Dubay

#3. The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Timothy Keller

#4. Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

Frances Moore Lappe

#5. Agency in fiction has to exist in the context of the worldview. Otherwise agency is not just meaningless or unconvincing, it is often laughable. Unfortunately, agency is often thoughtlessly given to characters who would not have it in reality. p.189

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. That's what's great about America: that our freedom of religion allows me to interpret the Bible exactly how it fits my worldview already.

Stephen Colbert

#7. WorldView-3 goes into the mid-infrared wavelength, allowing you to see very subtle geological differences on the sites at a 0.4-metre resolution.

Sarah Parcak

#8. [He] is the worst kind of asshole they make - the kind who is completely oblivious to how he sounds, the kind who is impossible to argue with because he doesn't allow for a worldview outside of his own.

Sloane Crosley

#9. At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#10. It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.

Maria Semple

#11. Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may be no worldview in the history of the human race that has a higher regard for the laws of logic.

Ronald H. Nash

#12. [Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Edward O. Wilson

#13. I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

John Thune

#14. European institutions and the worldview of conquest and colonialism had formed several centuries before that. From the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, Europeans conducted the Crusades to conquer North Africa and the Middle East, leading to unprecedented wealth in the hands of a few.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#15. We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

Charles Colson

#16. Ignatius, what's all this trash on the floor?"
"That is my worldview that you see. It still must be incorporated into a whole, so be careful where you step.

John Kennedy Toole

#17. The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

Virginia Postrel

#18. But once we become practiced at a contemplative worldview, a "thisness" way of seeing, there is nothing trivial anymore and all is grace.

Richard Rohr

#19. The key distinctive of a truly Christian education ... is the effective practice of worldview integration, that is, an approach to biblical integration that leads to a Christian worldview.

Martha MacCullough

#20. I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

Ben Okri

#21. Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

Satish Kumar

#22. She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and thei callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

Haruki Murakami

#23. Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

J. Budziszewski

#24. There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.

Corliss Lamont

#25. Quoting Scripture texts is different than shaping a worldview around them.

Justin Taylor

#26. I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.

Mira Nair

#27. ... depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

Jan Wong

#28. Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.

Vern Poythress

#29. ...in the Twilight Princess worldview, darkness is not necessarily correlated with evil, just as light is not necessarily correlated with good.

Jonathan L. Walls

#30. The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

Dennis Prager

#31. Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

John Thune

#32. But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer

Thomas Bernhard

#33. One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are ordered by forces that are beyond the ability of our rational mind to understand or control.

Thom Hartmann

#34. Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

Nancy Pearcey

#35. The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.

Gudjon Bergmann

#36. It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.

Tony Blair

#37. At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

John Charles Polanyi

#38. When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#39. EVOLUTIONARIES is going to help create a worldview that will influence our vision ofthe future ... and also our role in consciously participating in it.

Deepak Chopra

#40. A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

C.S. Lewis

#41. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.

Nina Easton

#42. It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

Naomi Klein

#43. It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Laura Linney

#44. Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#45. Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

Seth Godin

#46. We need to transform
the current scientific worldview
into a modern metaphysical
worldview in order to survive
the exponential disruptive technologies
we are about to
unleash upon ourselves

Jonathan R. Banks

#47. Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.

Don Feder

#48. I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

Denis Leary

#49. The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

Rebecca Makkai

#50. The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

Greg Graffin

#51. We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

Marianne Williamson

#52. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought - every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world - only Christianity.

Tom DeLay

#53. My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

Dennis Kucinich

#54. And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as penilosophy.

Zack Love

#55. Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Nancy Pearcey

#56. The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.

Ken Robinson

#57. The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.

Douglas Wilson

#58. The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

Albert Mohler

#59. We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

Rebecca Solnit

#60. THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT PSALM 82 CAN ROCK YOUR BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW. Once I saw what it was actually saying, I was convinced that I needed to look at the Bible through ancient eyes, not my traditions.

Michael S. Heiser

#61. The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world.

Mohammed Mahdi Akef

#62. My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy

R. Alan Woods

#63. I never realised that the downside of getting to know a woman before I screw her is the possibility that I might not want to screw her after I know her. That a personality could have such a devastating effect on desirability. It's depressing. My whole worldview is blown to bits.

Emma Chase

#64. I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Alan Dundes

#65. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

John Kennedy Toole

#66. And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

Nic Pizzolatto

#67. I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don't deny their influence.

Katherine Reay

#68. The reason why a person does not have success can be found inside him. It is his worldview, conscience, and perception of life

Sunday Adelaja

#69. A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

Asa Don Brown

#70. We are more willing to offend someone with whom we have weak ties, and a willingness to offend is an important part of creativity. Strong ties make us feel good, make us feel that we belong, but they also constrict our worldview.

Eric Weiner

#71. Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Rebecca Solnit

#72. I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

Randy Alcorn

#73. ...rationality can easily unveil the futility of life and lead to depression - as the stereotype of the extremely smart, but world-weary, educated man (often portrayed as a detective, philosopher, or doctor) suggests. As such, the rational worldview has its limits.

Gudjon Bergmann

#74. The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

Howard Thompson

#75. I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit ... it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

Uwem Akpan

#76. Worldview" is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed much more brightly, than in some other "intellectual" or scientist.

Julius Evola

#77. I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps I could immerse myself fully in the necessity of events, as the must, instead of merely wading in its surf for the rest of my life.

Ted Chiang

#78. Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.

J.P. Moreland

#79. Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

Gudjon Bergmann

#80. Since homo sapiens can survive only by unrestrained racial killing, a Jewish triumph of reason over impulse would mean the end of the species. What a race needed, thought Hitler, was a "worldview" that permitted it to triumph, which meant, in the final analysis, "faith" in its own mindless mission.

Timothy Snyder

#81. We find a combination of three themes that would recur in the ideology of all successful empires: a dualistic worldview that pits the good of empire against evildoers who oppose it; a doctrine of election that sees the ruler as a divine agent; and a mission to save the world.128

Karen Armstrong

#82. In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#83. Satellite datasets like WorldView can see objects as small as 1.5 feet in diameter. In 2014, WorldView-3 will be able to see objects a small as a foot.

Sarah Parcak

#84. In the karmic worldview, you are queer because of karma, and it may be a boon or curse. In the one-life worldview, you are queer because you choose to be so, to express your individuality or to defy authority (Greek mythology) or God/Devil wills it so (biblical mythology).

Devdutt Pattanaik

#85. My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.

James Lankford

#86. If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

Eric Kripke

#87. His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.

Neal Stephenson

#88. No credible understanding of the natural world or our human existence - what I am going to call in this book a worldview - can ignore the basic insights of theories as key as evolution, relativity, and quantum mechanics.

Dalai Lama XIV

#89. I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

Victor LaValle

#90. I shook my head. "After a while, quantum mechanics starts to affect your worldview." "What does this mean?" "The more research I did, the less I believed." "In quantum mechanics?" "No," I said. "In the world.

Ted Kosmatka

#91. I think "The Boondock Saints", because the Irish guys win. Plus the cat ends badly. It affirms my worldview and I feel validated.

Kevin Hearne

#92. As Christians, we must see that just because an artist -even a great artist- portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#93. A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the laws.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#94. She has some very interesting ways of thinking about things. I wonder in what kind of environment she built that kind of worldview? Is there anyone who influenced her to be like that?

Minari Endou

#95. My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

Anne Hathaway

#96. Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the doctrine of grace means as messed up their false worldview should make them.

Timothy Keller

#97. For me, my faith dictates everything I do, so no matter what I'm saying in my art, my faith is the driver for that. That's what I'd encourage people to understand as they listen to my music. It's distinct. My worldview bleeds through my music.

LeCrae

#98. the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisis - embedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy.

Naomi Klein

#99. I learned that myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.

John Green

#100. In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

Bill Nye