Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

In the affairs of this world men are saved, not by faith, but by want of it.

I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.