Quotes about Skepticism

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.

You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time.

Does a person have to suspend their critical judgment in order to believe in something as improbable as miracles?" Craig sat upright in his chair and raised his index finger as if to punctuate his point. "Only if you believe that God does not exist!" he stressed.

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

History is bunk.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.