Courage Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

— Samuel Richardson

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be…

— Richard Baxter

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his…

— Anonymous

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— Knute Rockne

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no…

— Roger L'Estrange

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

— Mark Twain

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

— Emile Durkheim

All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them

— Miyamoto Musashi

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

— Theodore M. Burton