Skepticism Quotes

"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "The universe is without design and without purpose." "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate." "There is no well-demonstrated reason to believe in God. If you were inculcated with it as a child, you might have a belief that a certain book is true and God's word. Letting go of that is not easy, but you should do it" "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows" "If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong" "By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it." "At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen." "Time! The present! In these, I am almost inclined to believe. I am a skeptical mystic." "I don't believe there is a powerful and mysterious 'popular will', a common will that expresses itself inexorably in spite of repression." "I don't want to believe I want to know" "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way" "In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted" "If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value it?" "Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings." "Theology is ignorance with wings."