Quotes About Doubt

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

My religion is no way of knowing me.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.