Irrational Belief Quotes

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.