Quotes About Skepticism

Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Ladies and gentlemen good evening You've seen that seeing is believing Your ears and your eyes will be bleeding Please check to see if you're still breathing

Believe nothing. Try everything.

Belief isn't required. Finch told me my father scoffed at it all, and he's just as dead as the other dukes." "So

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Ooh, a plan," echoed Jack, with utter cotempt. "Wellhooray for that.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

When a guy gets out and gets his face ground into the real world he comes up angry, wants to know how it works, and he'll believe anybody who tells him how, right or wrong.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place(Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism,Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,Drops his blue-fringèd lids, and holds them close,And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven,Cries out, "Where is it?"

She shook her head slowly. "I don't believe you. You can't be a cop." "Not a cop." "Federal agent?" "FBI." "Even more unlikely." "J. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but that's the way it is.