Believe it, or not. Here are some proverbs and quotes about religion, beliefs and superstition.
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
Stephen HawkingThere is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman.
Victor HugoThere is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
Stephen HawkingThere's the common veneration (not just by the religious) of faith, namely believing something without a good reason.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
They're fighting over which religion is the most peaceful.
(unknown author)This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaThose who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
VoltaireThough God is almighty, he doesn't send rain from a clear sky.
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
Rowan AtkinsonTrue, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
Daniel DennettTruth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar WildeWe are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god.
Stephen HawkingWhat can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Sam HarrisWhat is the use of a God who does no miracles and answers no prayers?
(unknown author)What is worse, tattoos or religion?
MinkukelWhat kind of mind would do something as useless as inventing ghosts and bribing them for good weather?
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works
What was God doing before the divine creation?
Stephen HawkingWhat would be the point of atheism in the absence of religion?
Frans de WaalWhen you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen RobertsWhen one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
Robert M. PirsigWho knows most believes least.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergYou can worship a sardine's head if you believe in it.
You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas.
Ken FollettSource: The Pillars of the Earth