Quotes about Skepticism

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

Theologian Lesslie Newbigin writes that we live in an age that favors doubt over faith.4 We often speak of "blind faith" and "honest doubt.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

Saint Augustine: This former skeptic confessed: "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee."43 If all men need God, including atheists, then it is unreasonable to conclude there is no God anywhere simply because some people do not find Him.