Skepticism quotations

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◆ What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

- Clarence Darrow99

◆ Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.

- Sam Harris99

◆ Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.

- Kiersten White99

◆ People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

- Thomas Paine99

◆ If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

- Timothy Keller99

◆ In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

- Criss Jami99

◆ In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

- David Hume99

◆ I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

- Thomas Paine99

◆ The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

- Patrick Ness99

◆ The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

- Criss Jami99

◆ God is an ever receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson99

◆ Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

- Jules Verne99