James Randi Quotes

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Faith does not mean credulity...

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.