30+ Non Religious Quotes To Increase Your Thinking

Nonreligious refers to individuals, beliefs, or practices that are not associated with or guided by any particular religion. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives, including atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, and various other philosophical and spiritual orientations that do not adhere to religious doctrines or dogmas. Nonreligious individuals may hold different views on the existence of deities, the supernatural, and the role of religion in society. They often base their beliefs and values on reason, evidence, and personal experiences rather than on religious teachings or scriptures. Nonreligious individuals may also prioritize secular ethics, scientific understanding, and a focus on the here and now rather than relying on religious texts or beliefs for guidance.

Non Religious Quotes

1. “Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
— Albert Einstein

2. “A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
— Albert Einstein

3. “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
— Steven Weinberg

4. “Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.”
— Thomas Jefferson

5. “If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

6. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs

7. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln

8. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
— Albert Schweitzer

9. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

10. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama

11. “The only limits in life are the ones you make.”
— Unknown

12. “The best revenge is massive success.”
— Frank Sinatra

13. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
— Charles R. Swindoll

14. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
— Sam Levenson

15. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
— Bo Bennett

16. “A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency – issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights – the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.”
— Gregory S. Paul

17. “Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.”
— Paul Kurtz

18. “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
— Thomas Jefferson

19. “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
— Thomas Jefferson

20. “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
— Thomas Jefferson

21. “Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.”
— George Washington

22. “Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.”
— Noma Bar

23. “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
— Thomas Jefferson

24. “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”
— Thomas Jefferson

25. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
— Charles Dickens

26. “As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, – as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, – and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
— John Adams

27. “All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.”
— Chapman Cohen

28. “In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.”
— Hillary Clinton

29. “A lot of arguments happen among religious and non religious people about the question of who’s going to hell and who’s going to heaven and uh, a lot of times Christians get into this argument by saying ‘we have the only way to heaven.’ And uh, people often ask me what do I think is the way to heaven. I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.”
— Brian D. McLaren

30. “The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.”
— Gotz Aly

31. “All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.”
— Madeleine L’Engle

32. “In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival “religion” and seeking to root it out from American public life. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.”
— Paul Kurtz

33. “My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.”
— Elayne Boosler

34. “Perhaps unsurprisingly, there’s a paradox here! Kierkegaard’s own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don’t believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).”
— George Pattison

35. “My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.”
— Orhan Pamuk