Skepticism Quotes

"To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of nonsense." "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." "Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth" "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable" "Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist" "Trust not too much to appearances" "It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge." "I have discovered that the world has survived by questioning other people's thinking" "Not believing is equal to believing in doubt." "A prophecy is a foolish conjecture yet untinged with disbelief." "To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows." "Criticism is prejudice made plausible" "The cynics are right nine times out of ten"