John Templeton Quotes (21 Quotes)

Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help - he would refer you to the Bible, but if you went the next day to your medical doctor, and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned.

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

Work at being a humble person.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

Half of all scientific discoveries ever made were made in the 20th century. Creation is accelerating, and even the acceleration appears to be accelerating.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.