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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume

It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading. — Augustine Of Hippo

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors. — Robert Breault

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic. — Criss Jami

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. — Carl Sagan

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. — Jules Verne

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity. — Maajid Nawaz

Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other. — G.K. Chesterton

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural. — Andy Rooney

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. — Henry Ward Beecher

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde

The only valid faith today is disbelief. — J.S.B. Morse

No amount of belief makes something a fact. — James Randi

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

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. — Victor Hugo

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. — Thomas Paine

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. — Paul Davies

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing. — Richard Dawkins

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. — Thomas Paine

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. — Sam Harris

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. — Stephen Fry

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. — Mark Twain

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. — Thomas Paine

It seems the more we know, the less we believe. — J.S.B. Morse

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. — Robert G. Ingersoll