Quotes About Skepticism

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.