Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
You cannot possibly persuade people that what they have firmly in mind is not so.
He was the judge who presided over the breakup of AT&T in 1984
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
The most obdurate incredulity may be shamed or silenced by facts.
I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.
If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.
I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.
One can't believe impossible things.
A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.
I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.
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.
I still don’t believe it. It’s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we’re all animals here. And we all have a killer’s instinct.
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
I'm a natural sceptic.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.