Belief Quotes - Page 12

When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's already there.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.

Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.