Faith Quotes by Richard Dawkins

The less you think, the more you believe.

— Richard Dawkins

It's about time we start criticizing faith.

— Richard Dawkins

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

— Richard Dawkins

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

— Richard Dawkins

“Only religious faith is a strong enough force to motivate such utter madness in otherwise sane and decent people.”

— Richard Dawkins

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous…

— Richard Dawkins

“We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.”

— Richard Dawkins

“But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert.”

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I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

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“I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he…

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My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

— Richard Dawkins

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest…

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As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard…

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Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and…

— Richard Dawkins

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work…

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“Pascal’s Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in…

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Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from…

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There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that…

— Richard Dawkins

“Returning to humanity’s need for comfort, it is, of course, real, but isn’t there something childish in the belief that the universe…

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If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.…

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I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,…

— Richard Dawkins

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and…

— Richard Dawkins

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that…

— Richard Dawkins

Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,…

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A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by…

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I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,…

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“If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,…

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“36. Argument from Incomplete Devastation: A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew. But one child survived with only third-degree burns. Therefore…

— Richard Dawkins

“As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard…

— Richard Dawkins

“Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. Teaching children that unquestioned faith is a virtue…

— Richard Dawkins

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation…

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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...

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False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

— Richard Dawkins

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental…

— Richard Dawkins

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

— Richard Dawkins