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Quotes About Skepticism

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.
~ Unknown
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith does not mean credulity...
~ Ronald Fisher
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
~ Hermann Hesse
Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.
~ Bertrand Russell
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.
~ Victor J. Stenger
Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.
~ John Gray
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
~ Christian D. Larson
The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
~ Robert Browning
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
~ Romain Rolland
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
~ Agnes Repplier
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Faith is the path of least resistance.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
~ C.G. Jung
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
~ C. S. Lewis
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
~ Jules de Goncourt
Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.
~ Ian Mcewan
It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
~ Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
~ Claude Bernard
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
~ Barry Commoner
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
~ James Anthony Froude
Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.
~ Richard Dawkins
They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.
~ Koushun Takami, Battle Royale