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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

—Chinese Proverb
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

—Benjamin Franklin
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have. I merely give robust expression to views about the cosmos and morality with which you happen to disagree. You interpret that as ‘intolerance’ because of the weirdly privileged status of religion, which expects to get a free ride and not have to defend itself. If I wrote a book called The Socialist Delusion or The Monetarist Delusion, you would never use a word like intolerance. But The God Delusion sounds automatically intolerant. Why? What’s the difference? I have a (you might say fanatical) desire for people to use their own minds and make their own choices, based upon publicly available evidence. Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private ‘revelation’. There is a huge difference.

—Richard Dawkins
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

—Blaise Pascal
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.

—Mahatma Gandhi
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

—Winston Churchill
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

—Laurence J. Peter
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

—William Shakespeare
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are serviley crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind faith.

—Thomas Jefferson
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 Lama
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife... Believe there is a great power silently working for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

—Beatrix Potter
You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

—Anne Lamott
The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy.

—Sam Harris
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

—Naguib Mahfouz
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

—Richard Dawkins
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.

—Aldous Huxley
Fundamentalism isn’t about religion. It’s about power.

—Salman Rushdie
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

—H. L. Mencken
Of the struggle between reason and religion, I know this: Religion is more dangerous. When reason is challenged, it will raise an objection. It will raise questions. When religion is challenged, it will raise an army. It will raze cities.

—Richard Bamford

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