Quotes about Skepticism

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.

As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. Very

As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. Very

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

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

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.