Atheism Quote by Bertrand Russell

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question…

— Bertrand Russell

“I wish to propose a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is…

— Bertrand Russell

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

— Friedrich Schiller

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Believing a given proposition is a matter of believing that it faithfully represents some state of the world, and this fact yields some immediate…

— Sam Harris

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

— Terence McKenna

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

— Bertrand Russell

A belief is not true because it is useful

— Anonymous

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

— C. S. Lewis

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“The problem with logic,” Prime said, “is that sometimes you are forced to believe your own hypothesis, even if you don’t want”

— Brian McClellan

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson