
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 8: Death
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 8: Death
“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Variant: I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.”
Reported by Steve Pinker, " I am Steve Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard. Ask me anything. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1a67x4/i_am_steve_pinker_a_cognitive_psychologist_at/c8uiccn", Reddit.com (March 12, 2013).
Other
“I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.”
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
“I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
"RAW Thoughts" at rawilson.com http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html
I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
Source: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 239, from interview in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=48m10s
Variant: Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.
Source: Bloodfever