Quotes About Critical

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness

He grokked that this was one of the critical cusps in the growth of a being wherein contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. He acted.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion, in the long run these are the only people who count.

Just because it's printed somewhere, that's no reason you have to believe it any more than if you saw it." Harry blinked. "I never thought of that angle before.

so we shot him up with antibiotics and glued shut a slashed vein in the groin that was sure to kill him.

Shit just got real.

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

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

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

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

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny.

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.