Quotes About Skepticism

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

And they want me to defend religion, and they want me to give them proofs. I just won't do it. It only confirms them in their skepticism. Because nothing true can be said a out God from a posture of defense.

I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment.

I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it.

In America, since we are an immigrant country, our "nativists" may be first- or second-generation Americans whose parents or grandparents were themselves considered suspect on these same grounds. It is almost as interesting as it is disheartening to learn that nativist rhetoric can have impact in a country where precious few can claim to be native in any ordinary sense.

He had learned that determination is suspect, more so as more effort is involved in it.

Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.

Michael grinned. "Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.

Reality and fantasy are fused through the style and through the ease with which the narrator moves from one to the other, more often than not displaying devastatingly sardonic erudition and an underlying skepticism that keeps in check any undue indulgence.

Als het tenminste waar is wat je me vertelt. Want weet je, hoe vervelend ik het ook vind, je hebt me al zoveel verhaaltjes op de mouw gespeld dat het me moeilijk valt er ook maar iets van te geloven.

Perdóneme, señor Casement. Vivir tantos años en la Amazonia me ha vuelto un poco escéptico sobre la idea de progreso. En Iquitos, uno termina por no creer en nada de eso. Sobre todo, en que algún día la justicia vaya a hacer retroceder a la injusticia.

Queta, señora? Sí, y Amalia no lo creía, con el

It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no .

My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical.

Beware of men with theories that explain everything.

anyone who asserts so often that he is telling the truth probably isn't.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

A Being who's higher than we are?! LOL!

I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized"—courtesy of Alair Townsend

regard appeals to authority as somewhat unAmerican

We remember the famous curve in the shape of a hockey stick… However, no serious scientist still gives it the least credit.