--- title: "14 Believe Quotes By Michael Shermer" description: "14 Believe quotes by Michael Shermer. Plus more from Michael Shermer and more Believe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/michael-shermer-2567_animal_people-believe-in-god-because-we-are-pat_504213.jpg" --- > [People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/people-believe-in-god-because-we-are-pattern-seeking-storytelling/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/michael-shermer-2567_animal_people-believe-in-god-because-we-are-pat_504213.jpg) > [I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want-to-believe-but-because-i-want/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11c/michael-shermer-2567_believe_i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want_34236.jpg) > [Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/smart-people-believe-weird-things-because-they-are-skilled-at/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/michael-shermer-2567_belief_smart-people-believe-weird-things-becaus_1391653.jpg) > [Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/ever-since-college-i-have-been-a-libertarian-socially-liberal-and/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/michael-shermer-2567_been_ever-since-college-i-have-been-a-liberta_2765316.jpg) > [Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/being-a-skeptic-just-means-being-rational-and-empirical-thinking-and/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/542/michael-shermer-2567_being_being-a-skeptic-just-means-being-rationa_2891273.jpg) > [The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/the-whole-point-of-faith-in-fact-is-to-believe-regardless-of-the/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f0/michael-shermer-2567_antithesis_the-whole-point-of-faith-in-fact-is-to-b_2268419.jpg) > [There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/there-is-a-significant-difference-between-having-no-belief-in-a-god/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cda/michael-shermer-2567_belief_there-is-a-significant-difference-betwee_1557540.jpg) > [People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/people-who-espouse-intelligent-design-believe-nature-is-so-complex-as/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4e/michael-shermer-2567_believe_people-who-espouse-intelligent-design-be_2173148.jpg) > [I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want-to-believe-but-because-i-want-2/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d15/michael-shermer-2567_answers_i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want_2422319.jpg) > [Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/belief-is-the-natural-state-of-things-it-is-the-default-option-we/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/michael-shermer-2567_belief_belief-is-the-natural-state-of-things-it_814378.jpg) > [...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/evolution-is-not-a-religious-tenet-to-which-one-swears-allegiance-or/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/michael-shermer-2567_allegiance_evolution-is-not-a-religious-tenet-to-wh_1129958.jpg) > [Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/believing-that-the-rustle-in-the-grass-is-a-dangerous-predator-when/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/427/michael-shermer-2567_animal_believing-that-the-rustle-in-the-grass-i_3176286.jpg) > [I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/i-am-an-atheist-there-i-said-it-are-you-happy-all-you-atheists-out/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/368/michael-shermer-2567_adopting_i-am-an-atheist-there-i-said-it-are-you_2905353.jpg) > [We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/we-want-to-be-special-we-want-our-place-in-the-cosmos-to-be-central/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3b/michael-shermer-2567_again-and-again_we-want-to-be-special-we-want-our-place_2596629.jpg) ## Other authors on Believe ## More by Michael Shermer > [I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want-to-believe-but-because-i-want/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [“According to Dembski, for example, “scientific creationism has prior religious commitments whereas intelligent design does not.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/according-to-dembski-for-example-scientific-creationism-has-prior/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/the-first-cause-and-prime-mover-argument-brilliantly-proffered-by-st/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [“Mind is just a word we use to describe neural activity in the brain. No brain, no mind. We know this because if a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/mind-is-just-a-word-we-use-to-describe-neural-activity-in-the-brain/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/through-no-divine-design-or-cosmic-plan-we-have-inherited-the-mantle/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/i-always-accepted-the-libertarian-position-of-minimum-regulation-in/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/if-spirituality-is-the-sense-of-awe-and-humility-in-the-face-of-the/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/we-know-evolution-happened-not-because-of-transitional-fossils-such/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/yet-basically-libertarians-are-for-freedom-and-liberty-for/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/scientists-like-bjorn-lomborg-in-the-skeptical-environmentalist-have/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/when-religious-believers-invoke-miracles-and-acts-of-creation-ex/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/darwin-matters-because-evolution-matters-evolution-matters-because/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/what-can-be-more-soul-shaking-than-peering-through-a-100-inch/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/skepticism-is-not-a-position-that-you-stake-out-ahead-of-time-and/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) > [“Neuroscientist David Comings drew out the larger implications of such hallucinations for the relationship between our rational and spiritual brains: The psychedelic drugs like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/neuroscientist-david-comings-drew-out-the-larger-implications-of-such/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/michael-shermer/#itemlist", "name": "14 Believe Quotes By Michael Shermer", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Shermer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/people-believe-in-god-because-we-are-pattern-seeking-storytelling/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/michael-shermer-2567_animal_people-believe-in-god-because-we-are-pat_504213.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/michael-shermer-2567_animal_people-believe-in-god-because-we-are-pat_504213.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/michael-shermer-2567_animal_people-believe-in-god-because-we-are-pat_504213.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.” — Michael Shermer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Shermer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want-to-believe-but-because-i-want/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11c/michael-shermer-2567_believe_i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want_34236.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11c/michael-shermer-2567_believe_i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want_34236.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11c/michael-shermer-2567_believe_i-m-a-skeptic-not-because-i-do-not-want_34236.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.” — Michael Shermer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Shermer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/smart-people-believe-weird-things-because-they-are-skilled-at/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/michael-shermer-2567_belief_smart-people-believe-weird-things-becaus_1391653.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/michael-shermer-2567_belief_smart-people-believe-weird-things-becaus_1391653.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/michael-shermer-2567_belief_smart-people-believe-weird-things-becaus_1391653.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for…” — Michael Shermer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. 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Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity,\" one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Shermer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/evolution-is-not-a-religious-tenet-to-which-one-swears-allegiance-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/michael-shermer-2567_allegiance_evolution-is-not-a-religious-tenet-to-wh_1129958.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/michael-shermer-2567_allegiance_evolution-is-not-a-religious-tenet-to-wh_1129958.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/michael-shermer-2567_allegiance_evolution-is-not-a-religious-tenet-to-wh_1129958.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. 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There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If \"atheist\" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. 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