Quotes about Skepticism

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not need to change these people, only recognize who they are.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Whether the church in America is really "free," I doubt.

They believed that in watching these burnings and dissections, they had an actual window into hell itself.

If we believe miracles cannot happen today but happened to our distant ancestors, what we really seem to be saying is not that miracles happened back then but, rather, that all those people back then were naive enough to believe they happened. It is to say that miracles never happened, but gullible people thought they did.

Jesus's rising from the dead was considered as impossible and staggering as such a thing would be considered today. People in the first century did not rise from the grave any more than they do now, in the twenty-first century.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.