Quotes About Skepticism

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

We always place that little word "but" after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true.

President Calvin Coolidge: "Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?

Shane rode in a thoughtful silence. He had never much believed in God. He believed in Hell, for he had seen it with his own eyes, but to even think that there was a great and powerful benevolent force watching over mankind, like a distant but loving father, had always struck him as childishly optimistic.

there is nothing so dangerous as a maxim. —C. J. MAY, "Some Rules of Evidence: Reasonable Doubt in Civil and Criminal Cases" (1876)

That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?

Suspicious we are, we men who walk the earth.

The skeptic is never for real. There he stands, cocktail in hand, left arm draped languorously on one end of the mantelpiece, telling you that he can't be sure of anything, not even of his own existence. I'll give you my secret method of demolishing universal skepticism in four words. Whisper to him: 'Your fly is open.' If he thinks knowledge is so all-fired impossible, why does he always look?

Vos creéis saberlo todo. Merlín se echó a reír: ?Al revés. Sé que no sé nada. El Caballero miró a Merlín con recelo. Sospechaba que el mago le estaba tendiendo una trampa: ?¿Cómo podéis decir que no sabéis nada, siendo como sois tan sabio? ?Eso es lo que me hace sabio ?respondió Merlín?. Saber «nada» significa no tener que demostrar que sé «algo».

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish...

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

If you say to a man: "Eighteen hundred years ago the dead were raised," he will reply: "Yes, I know that." And if you say: "A hundred thousand years from now all the dead will be raised," he will probably reply: "I presume so." But if you tell him: "I saw a dead man raised to-day," he will ask, "From what madhouse have you escaped?

Nobody ever saw anybody who had seen anybody who had heard of anybody that had ever seen anybody that had ever seen one of the original Hebrew manuscripts.

the Bible is a book written by ignorance—at the instigation of fear.

Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for the institution.

So, the Accountant thinks Cuckoo might've been killed?

everything started to look more sinister.

Anyone pointing out pitfalls or difficulties is scaremongering. Experts don't know anything. Facts lie.