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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

— Richard Dawkins

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✓Similar Perspectives

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

— Matisyahu

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

— Richard Dawkins

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

— Kathryn Schulz

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

— Adoniram Judson

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

— Ruth Benedict

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

— Felix Frankfurter

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

— Salman Rushdie

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

— Paul Bloom

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

— Steve Hackett

✗Opposing Perspectives

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

— Dick Van Dyke