Belief Without Evidence Quotes

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

Ambrose Bierce

#2. In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Paul Davies

#3. I don't think faith is positive, because faith means belief without evidence, and you shouldn't believe anything without evidence. ["The Daily Show" 24 Sept 2013]

Richard Dawkins

#4. Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

Penn Jillette

#5. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. Faith is belief without evidence, which we blindly pursue as the truth.

Gian Kumar

#7. Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Richard Dawkins

#8. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Ashley Montagu

#9. Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

Chauncey Wright

#11. Your belief without logical evidence & true knowledge is nothing but primitive superstition.

Md. Mujib Ullah

#12. There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#13. The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Bertrand Russell

#14. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#15. I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James

#16. I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#17. People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they make me cross, and they make me especially cross when they impose their beliefs on defenceless children.

Richard Dawkins

#18. It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.

Sam Harris

#19. If someone believes in god, is he a liar? He never saw god or any proof or evidence of god. He only heard about god.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning ... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

Angela Ahrendts

#21. Long after everyone else has given up and gone home and gotten on with their lives, he would keep on believing because, without evidence, you could never kill his belief.

Tim Johnston