Quotes About Skepticism

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled. No man's life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and done it. So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing. That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. –Mark Twain

More men go to church than want to.

I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the _art_ of lying.

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

I don't believe this, Sister Maria muttered. It can't be, because sure enough, when Liesel stepped forward and presented her hands, Ludwig Schmeikl was all over them, rusting by the moment.

Don't ask him for help," Mama pointed out. "That Saukerl." Papa was staring out the window, as was often his habit. "He left school in fourth grade." Without turning around, Papa answered calmly, but with venom, "Well, don't ask her, either." He dropped some ash outside. "She left school in third grade.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction, and sentimentality are good excuses.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

Ei accept? numai ceea ce tocmai le iese în cale, ceea ce îi m?guleÅŸte ÅŸi le este cunoscut. Sunt asemenea câinilor: "C?ci câinii latr? ÅŸi ei la toÅ£i cei pe care nu-i cunosc".

There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Someone in a novel, was he not? I don't take much stock of detectives in novels--chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.