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Quotes About Skepticism

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
~ Mason Cooley
Faith is intellectual laziness.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
~ Adam Smith
It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
~ Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
~ Lao-Tzu
America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason.
~ Unknown
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
~ Zadie Smith
She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.
~ Kate Atkinson
It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.
~ James Russell Lowell
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
~ Patricia Briggs
"You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself."
~ John Connolly
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.
~ Shirley Jackson
I have no faith in my ability to judge things.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Never believe in any faith younger than you are.
~ Dahlia Lithwick
Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.
~ Bob Dylan
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
~ Thomas Huxley
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Help cure the world of the faith virus.
~ Peter Boghossian
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
~ Oscar Wilde
For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.
~ Nancy Gibbs
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
~ Stanislaus I
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
~ Pete Townshend
I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.
~ Unknown
It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.
~ Steven Magee