Quotes About Skepticism

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

God save us from religion.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

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

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.