Quotes About Doubt

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

God save us from religion.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.