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“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

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Author:David Hume

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

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Book:Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary

Source: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

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Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”

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Author:Ludwig Borne

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

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Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”

“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”