Quotes About Questioning

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

Who knows most, doubts most.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

I broke with my religion in college.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Science has taken away our religion.