Michael Faraday Quotes

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it." My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk.

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.

I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing that you can do things and that you should want to do things. And people encouraging you to try to do things.

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.