971 Quotes About Beliefs

Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.

It is easier to convince a liar to speak the truth than to convince a believer to drop his beliefs.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology.

Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

If a belief is hurting you; perhaps it is time for a new belief. Your truth shouldn't hurt.

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.