Quotes About Skepticism

Pessimists — Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

The great nineteenth-century writers — Hawthorne and Melville, Thoreau and Emerson, Twain and James — were skeptics, transcendentalists, and humanists, and not even God knows what Emily Dickinson was.

A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals

Fabiano estirou o beiço, duvidando.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.

In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.

That leaves the allegation that atheists are humourless. There are atheist jokes. Here is a modest example. A Jewish atheist enrols his son in what he is told is the best school in town. The school is Catholic. All starts well. Then, one day, his son comes home and says: 'Today, I learned about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.' The father is furious. 'Steve, listen carefully. This is very important. There is only one God … and we do not believe in Him!

The new breed of reporter doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't have sex beyond reproducing, and most importantly—doesn't believe. They don't believe they are there to question everything. They are there to print whatever is told to them. The news is dead, my friend. Buried under a mountain of full color advertising, and six-digit deposit slips.

I wouldn't mind giving the feds their cut if they weren't so damn nosy, if any of them actually read the constitution and if they didn't spend every penny on some harebrained scheme.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

To reason with the non-Christian in a fashion purporting to be independent of God or independent of reliance upon revelation is to honor the unregenerate's notions of "evidence" and "verification" as legitimate and correct. However, for the Christian, it is Scripture that governs *every* aspect of his life, even his concept of "evidence" and the way he reasons with skeptics.

People are tired of this mainstream shit; television and radio is ghastly and the public can smell the corporate meeting. When you watch a show with Simon Cowell, you know no human touch has been near it, that they've carefully engineered the outcome and picked those they're going to humiliate. We live in an age of information glut, but so many people don't question what they're spoon-fed or bother to search for themselves.

Oh, I say I have an ocelot and it's a joke, but I've had so many news programs in this country say, 'So what's it like, having an ocelot?" And I'll say, "It's marvelous just to see them run free. When feeding time comes and they're mewling, it just warms your heart.' People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It's not just me. Look around.

Belief, as the sagacious Robert Anton Wilson once remarked, "is the death of intelligence".

For those who think that the NDE has been satisfactorily explained by science, their advice is sobering: "Theories proposed thus far consist largely of unsupported speculations about what might be happening during an NDE".111

I think you could have a really good night tonight," she said huskily. Jade's eyes danced over her cheap outfit, taking in her costume jewelry and her ruby-red lipstick. "Yeah?" he said. "Thanks for the premonition.

Religions do not teach doubt.

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

Its not impossible, Minelli said. No, Edward admitted, but its paranoid as hell, and thats the last thing we need, more fear.

I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.

I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that