Quotes About Skepticism

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.

An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn't.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

If I don't believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.

Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.

I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.

The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and when does it put us. How just by one religion a lot of people live in the lie!

That's not a religion, that's Pokemon.

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.

Those who believe, believe everything, while those who doubt don't believe a thing.

The cynics—well aware that there is nobody who despises the imagination so thoroughly as the dreamer

It isn't a coincidence that skepticism about climate change tends to be the preserve of the nationalist right. You rarely see left-wing socialists tweet that "climate change is a Chinese hoax." Since there is no national answer to the problem of global warming, some nationalist politicians prefer to believe the problem does not exist.15

numerous theories and stories have been ascribed to the Buddha, often without any supporting evidence. But you need not believe any of them in order to meditate.

I didn't come all this way not to let some lunatic old man tie me to a chair and feed me mind-melting poisons. "I