Quotes About Skepticism

When solutions produce problems, when thought flounders in the absence of order, unity, and purpose, when healthy skepticism turns into pathological sarcasm – this is usually when pessimism enters the fray.

Happiness in other people makes me suspicious.

We believe that modern-day Hitlers have deliberately adulterated the oral polio vaccines with anti-fertility drugs and contaminated it with certain viruses which are known to cause HIV and AIDS," the chairman of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria maintained, urging parents to refuse vaccination.

many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

Heal me? You're trying to heal me by rubbing your…by rubbing against me?" Kat didn't even try to keep the skepticism out of her voice. "Yeah, right.

Now are you going to come out and let us help you or not?" "Forget it. I know what your idea of help is—both of you skewering me at once. I'm not about to become a sexual shish-ka-bob for the rest of my life just because I ate the wrong fruit by mistake." "It

Religion is all bunk.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

I have faith, but I'm not the biggest fan of organised religion. There's a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.

Religion is induced insanity.

I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion.

My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.

Honestly, I'm, like, the least religious person in the world.

I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.

I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.