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Mind Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion…
- Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances…
- As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and…
- Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep…
- With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to…
- Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
- Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
- Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As…
- So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak…
- Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
- If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change…
- When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just…
- Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a…
- It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
- bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no…
- If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works?…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle