Sydney J. Harris Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

• The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Educational, Creative, Taught

• Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Religious, Philosophical, Hands

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

• We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Believe, Passion, Prejudice

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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