Conrad Black Quotes

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

No religion can be built on force.

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that where ever others differ from them it is so far error.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.