Outdated Beliefs Quotes

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

The verdict of history ... is that worn out ideas have never risen to power among a people who have worn them out.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

The right wing of the Conservative Party is one of the most vicious, prejudiced and neolithic animals in British politics

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.

Since the dawn of civilization, markets have been ubiquitous. Many of us have benefited from their focus and efficiency. Yet two widely held beliefs - that markets are best left unregulated and that markets are inherently benign - are naive and outdated.

My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Almost anybody from the past will hold views discordant with the present.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

There's some members of the older generation who have been conditioned with such closed minds.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.