Belief Quote by Sam Harris

I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really…

— Edward O. Wilson

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with…

— Noam Chomsky

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

— George C. Williams

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct…

— Thomas Huxley

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

— Hugo Black

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and…

— Matisyahu

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in…

— Joseph Campbell

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware…

— E. O. Wilson

Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors…

— Frans de Waal