Quotes About Skepticism

The truth is overrated.

The public is conditioned to believe new and better drugs are the answer to our medical problems, but that is seldom the case.

I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.

Still, I don't trust a man I haven't seen tight.

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him.

each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt.

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know".

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

I had never heard such bullshit in my life. I opened my mouth and said, "I have never heard such bullshit in my life.

Among the haunts of humankind, hard-featured men, or with proud, angry looks, or cold, staid gait, or false and hollow smiles, or the dull sneer of self-loved ignorance, or other such foul masks, with which ill thoughts hide that fair being whom we spirits call man.

IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?

The same people who believe that all-powerful modern truism that "Image is Everything," also believe everything they read in Vanity Fair.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency.

Do they really think that attending mass will make them better, or happier, or save them from an eternity of hellfire? Maybe they do. But there are something like ten thousand religions in the world. What makes them think that they happen to have been born into the right one? I have asked this question several times. So far, I haven't heard a good answer. Better to start your own religion, I think. That way you get to be your own pope.

for all of their accomplishments, Americans should not fall in love with their own virtue, and should not expect non-Americans to take that virtue on faith.

Today, citizens were at once less trusting and more credulous. Many had swallowed lies of vast proportion.

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily.

Horst didn't believe in ghosts.

Politicians see conspiracies everywhere