Samantha Power Quotes

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

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

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

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

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

Faith does not mean credulity...

I do not believe in Belief.

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

Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?

One can't believe impossible things.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.