Quotes About Skepticism

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. "—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

You don't return people's smiles—it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. Critical thinking may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood—but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.

Maybe I had found true love. Not that true love is a bitter, rotten dead monkey in a box. But then again, maybe.

The hysteria of suspicion has made us unreliable to ourselves, trusting neither our aspirations nor our convictions. Suspiciousness, not skepticism, is the beginning of our thinking.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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)

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The thing about quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine.

Always be wary of quotes on the internet.