“Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.” WaterExistenceOceanEvidenceAskingAtheistFishesAnti AtheistEvidence Of God Author:Ray Comfort
“The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.” PeopleWayShouldSometimesBehaviorEvidenceAskingInstitutionsPopulationProportionAdmirableDeserving Author:David Graeber
“A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.” WillingEvidenceLogicClaimsAskingDefinitionsClarityConsistencySkepticAdequacy Author:Paul Kurtz
“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.” InspirationalNeedsBelieveMotivationalSpiritualOrderAtheismEvidenceAskingAtheistEthicalSpiritual LifeAgnosticInsufficient Author:Sam Harris
“Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.” BookStoriesLawReadingSimpleStudyEvidenceAskingDearEquitySuccessionTediousThoroughCommentaryObtainingPleadingThorough Knowledge Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln