Quotes about Skepticism

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

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

Discerning someone's character, true values, and suitability for marriage is hard work. It takes time, counsel, and a healthy dose of objective self-doubt and skepticism. Identifying someone as "God's chosen" or Plato's "soul mate" is comparatively easy. You "feel" it in your gut. It seems right. You can't imagine anyone else. You must have found the one!

If you're going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the eyewitnesses are dead and gone.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.

There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.

and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.