The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest… — Richard Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
“What sort of god could be excused the actions of his followers? Didn’t it, in a way, infantilise the deity to say… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Let us learn hence, (1.) That atheism is folly, and atheists are the greatest fools in nature; for they see there is… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The nihilist looks around at everything and comes to terms with what seems to be obvious. The sun is one tiny dying… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray? — Charles R. Moore Copy Share Image