Quotes About Skepticism

As G. K. Chesterton bemoaned, once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers.

Skepticism is certainly a beneficial tool, to the extent that it yields a dialectic of ideas that can progress toward empirical resolution of difficult issues, but at present it is too commonly an attitude, a well-cultivated academic pretense, that leads to the neglect of important problems.

Never trust the French.

It seems to me that maybe It pretty much always means, no

We must trust everyone and no-one

I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.

We have a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over thirty.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.

Yeah, yeah, whatever." Allegra was trying not to smile, so I think she saw it too.

I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.

The individual can no longer live except in a climate of tension and overexcitement. He can no longer be a smiling skeptical spectator. He is indeed "engaged," but involuntarily so, since he has ceased to dominate his own thoughts and actions.

I don't disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch," and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. "I don't even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don't know. It is necessary, in the solution of material problems, to work from a material basis, and then the things which are conjured up by fear and-and failure to understand may be dissipated.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

I believe nothing. Nothing whatever.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.

Is she laughing at me?'' Cruz said. Both of his men replied, 'Yes.

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Can't you agree with me about anything?" asks the Grouch. Old Mother has to admit it: she almost always disagrees with him. Even if she agrees with most of what he is saying, there will be some small part of it she disagrees with. When she does agree with him, she suspects her own motives: she may agree with him only so that at some future time she will be able to remind him that she does sometimes agree with him.

A melhor maneira para seguir não acreditando em nada é nos cercarmos de padres e freiras que acreditam demais.

I don't really trust a sane person.