Quotes About Skeptic

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

It became clear to us early on that Catholic dogma was pretty much a fairy story concocted to satisfy the incurious masses, and we were buying none of it.

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

Call me a skeptic, but I've always thought that it takes more than organic vegetables and talking circles to make an ideal society. Raven

Mulch was not impressed. 'I'm not impressed,' he said.

Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed," he said.

Inktvlekken, in vredesnaam. Mijn leven is aanzienlijk korter dan het uwe, dokter. Ik verspil liever geen kostbare tijd aan waardeloze onzintestjes. Dan kunnen we net zo goed theeblaadjes lezen of de toekomst voorspellen aan de hand van de ingewanden van een kalkoen. - Artemis

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Every marriage needs one skeptic to keep it safe. But a marriage of two skeptics will fail to thrive.

There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.

I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist)

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.

Call me cynical, but I have difficulty putting much stock in Christianity, when the entirety of the religion was built upon believing an unmarried fifteen-year-old girl's explanation for how she got pregnant.

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

Josh gives me a dubious look.

I have been asked to take up a ghost, Carlyle began to explain. Then I don't believe in it, declared Carrados. Why not? Because it is a pushful, notoriety-loving ghost, or it would not have gone so far. Probably it wants to get into The Daily Mail.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together