Quotes About Skepticism

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)

Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Advertising is legalized lying.

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

Never trust a person that tries to sell you by how righteous they are. I'm telling your right now, it's a scam.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

I don't know what popping-and-locking is but I know to lock my car door whenever people are doing it.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

I'm afraid I can't do the things you want me to do because people don't go in much for sorcery nowadays. I don't think they'd be very interested.

Still, if that's the way she feels about it there's not much use you going home now and saying "Look mum, I got a bloke coming in tomorrow to see about the ghost", is there?

How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it? I...huh? How can you understand something you don't believe in? Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechauns unless you believe in them. Do you understand leprechauns? I don't believe in them. There you go.

Emily did not want to believe in ghosts. But she kept seeing them. She had been seeing them ever since she could remember.

Skeptics today often claim that George Washington was not a real Christian, but in our view, the burden of proof is on them to explain why he was consistently in church throughout his life, why the churches he was part of were entirely orthodox in terms of the Trinity and the doctrine of Christ, and why he attended churches where the Bible was regularly preached on Sunday.

The skeptics who argue for Washington the Deist must explain his lifelong and heartfelt commitment to Christian missionary work.

The credulity of crowds is never-ending.

but offered him nothing beyond that. Dodger, for his part, would remove

The danger of total propaganda is not that propaganda will be believed. The danger is that nothing will be believed and that every communication becomes suspect. In the end, no communication is being recieved anymore. Everything anyone says is considered a demand and is resisted, resented, and in effect not heard at all. The end results of total propaganda are not fanatics, but cynics - but this, of course, may be even greater and more dangerous corruption. (p. 20)

Pilate's skeptical sneer What is truth? was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.