Quotes about Skepticism

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

I'm going through this phase where I don't make an effort to make friends with anyone. This is primarily because I know that people try to make friends only till the time the camera is on. I'm not comfortable with such friendships and I didn't resort to it in 'Bigg Boss' either.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.