Quotes About Skepticism

But should this miracle be ascribed to any new system of religion; men, in all ages, have been so much imposed on by ridiculous stories of that kind, that this very circumstance would be a full proof of a cheat, and sufficient, with all men of sense, not only to make them reject the fact, but even reject it without further examination

obtruded on us by the Scottish historians.      [* Chron. Sax. p. 19.]      [** W. Malms, p. 19.]

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

Please don't believe anything that I've written in this book unless it feels right to you .

When anyone tells you they have all the answers it is time to race for the exits.

There comes a point in every man's life when he sees that the magician's hat is empty, that the government and the church are run by fools, and that virtue is far rarer than he'd been led to believe.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

But if such things were common, then would we not know about them?" "They happen to women," Miss Feldstein says wearily. "And as we have just witnessed, when a woman makes a claim about her own body, men may find it convenient to disbelieve her.

15th June, 1872.—Lewalé doubts Sangara on account of having brought no letters. Nothing can be believed in this land unless it is in black and white, and but little even then; the most circumstantial details are often mere figments of the brain. The one half one hears may safely be called false, and the other half doubtful or not proven.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.

I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

He had the look of an atheist who'd just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented.