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Skepticism Quotes

"Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin"

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead"

"Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be"

"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth"

"It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail."

"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity"

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

"Trust not too much to appearances"

"Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you"

"Time! The present! In these, I am almost inclined to believe. I am a skeptical mystic."

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