Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

A belief may be larger than a fact.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.

Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth".

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Having principles is important, but you don’t want to walk off a cliff with your principles.

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error… the only difference between our Churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrines is, the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.

People and nations wither away without the freedom to question what is presented to them as the truth.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.