Quotes About Skepticism

You said you might get a wee bit bigger, or some bullshit. Everything you say is bullshit!" And she'd bought his every line—believing herself halfway in love with him.

Perhaps not. But I can tell you are malingering." "Malingering? I don't speak S.A.T.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.