Belief Quote by Sidney Hook

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

— David Milne

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet…

— Julian Sanchez

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

— Sigmund Freud

“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with…

— René Girard

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

— H. L. Mencken

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

— Jonathan Edwards

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

— John Mortimer

A belief may be larger than a fact.

— Vannevar Bush

I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.

— Panos Cosmatos

“All religions, I claim, involve counterintuitive beliefs in supernatural beings. Moreover, such beliefs are systematically counterintuitive in the same basic ways. As we shall…

— Scott Atran