| |  | | | | | | | | | | | A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. | | Robert Green Ingersoll | | | A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. | | Ambrose Bierce | | | All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe | | Thomas Paine | | | Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? | | Henry David Thoreau | | | | | It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. | | Albert Einstein | | | No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish | | David Hume | | | | | The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory | | Robert Green Ingersoll | | | The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to | | David Hume | | | The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. | | Mark Twain | | | | | There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves | | David Hume | | | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 14 of 14 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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