Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.

About Scott Adams

Scott Raymond Adams (June 8, 1957 – January 13, 2026) was an American cartoonist, author, and commentator. He is best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.

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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

—Scott Adams

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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

—Scott Adams

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Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

—Scott Adams

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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

—Scott Adams

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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

—Scott Adams

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More quotations tagged with “atheism”

You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.

—Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

—Richard Dawkins

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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

—Richard Dawkins

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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

—Peter De Vries

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I'm still an atheist, thank God.

—Luis Bunuel

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