Atheism Quote by Gary Sloan Download Open image “True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.” — Gary Sloan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Believer Facts Religion True believer
True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Many false idols are held up today. For Christians to be faithful, they can't be afraid to go against the current. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down. — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way. — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image