Accepted Quote by Paul Kurtz

“Just like how the unexamined life isn't worth living, the unexamined belief isn't worth believing”

— asian marketer Amos Lau

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial…

— Carl Sagan

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of…

— Robert Anton Wilson

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to…

— Winona Ryder

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are…

— Stephen Batchelor

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily.…

— Tana French

Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

“All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.”

— Guillermo del Toro

We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the…

— Fred Alan Wolf

The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I think that things like curses or whatever - those labels - come from belief systems, universal belief systems. So when you get a…

— Mariel Hemingway