Skepticisim Quotes & Sayings

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. — Ricky Gervais

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered. — Anthony Burgess

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together. — Jesse Jackson

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault. — Carl Sagan

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors. — Elizabeth Knox