Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Richard Dawkins's Popular Quotes

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

- Richard Dawkins

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

- Richard Dawkins

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri…

- Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

- Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

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

- Richard Dawkins

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

- Richard Dawkins