Belief Quote by PZ Myers Download Open image “Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.” — PZ Myers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belief Clever Clever People Creating Faith Insane People Very clever
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“The masses often label as "Insanity" what they don't understand and as "Insane" the ones possessing that knowledge.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“That's the difference between a godly person and an atheist. Our stories are shorter and don't assume the protagonist is an idiot.” — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown 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
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
