Quotes about Skepticism
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)
- Albert Einstein
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
- Aldous Huxley
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.
- Aldous Huxley
I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.
- Lee Strobel
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
- Woodrow Wilson
Extreme orthodoxy betrays by its very frenzy that the poison of skepticism has entered the soul of the church; for men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If our postmodern world seems highly subject to cynicism, skepticism, and what it does not believe in, if we now live in a post-truth America, then we "believers" must take at least partial responsibility for aiming our culture in this sad direction. The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.
- Bruce Lee
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
- Dennis Prager
Once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing--they begin to believe in anything.
- Alistair Begg
For the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.
- Alistair Begg