385 Quotes About Skepticism

Skepticism was a drug for him. Life's vicissitudes had taught him never to be caught without it. A most useful drug, it magically invigorated his heart, transforming opprobrium into piety and ignominy into tolerance.

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

Nobody believes in God like an atheist: “There is no God, and I am His prophet.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory.

You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it.