I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief…

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

— Robert Anton Wilson

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

— Martha Gellhorn

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds;…

— Thomas Jefferson

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

— Terence McKenna

“If you can do everything in your job without struggling, not only will you get stuck in your slot but you’ll never flex your…

— Brian Wong

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives…

— Thomas Carlyle

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

— Tom Platz

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our…

— Jason Silva

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

— E. Stanley Jones

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put…

— Marcel Proust

The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need…

— Roger Cohen

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension…

— Thomas A. Edison

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

— Ezra Pound

I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

— Karen Duffy