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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

—Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1973)
The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence.

—Felix Adler
I believe in time,
matter, and energy,
which make up the whole of the world.

I believe in reason, evidence and the human mind,
the only tools we have;
they are the product of natural forces
in a majestic but impersonal universe,

—PZ Myers
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

—A. C. Grayling
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.

—Thomas Paine
What would you do if there were no God? Would you commit robbery, rape, and murder, or would you continue being a good and moral person? Either way the question is a debate stopper. If the answer is that you would soon turn to robbery, rape, or murder, then this is a moral indictment of your character, indicating you are not to be trusted because if, for any reason, you were to turn away from your belief in God, your true immoral nature would emerge. If the answer is that you would continue being good and moral, then apparently you can be good without God. QED.

—Michael Shermer
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

—Bede Griffiths
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

—T. S. Eliot
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

—Thomas Jefferson
Judge a person by their questions rather than by their answers.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

—Samuel Johnson
It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found 'Thou shalt believe The Bible.'

—Robert G. Ingersoll
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

—John W. Gardner
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

—John Locke (1689)
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

—Alan Watts
Unitarian Universalism celebrates the inherent worth and dignity of every person and seeks to build a peaceful, just and compassionate society. We welcome people of all different beliefs and we believe that the spiritual life is personal: a relationship between the individual and deity or spiritual force, however you define it. We believe no one should have their beliefs defined for them.

—Rev. William G. Sinkford
I asked who They were and They said They didn't know

—BillyJoBob
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

—Richard Bach

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