Quotes About Skepticism

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

She's right. I don't trust her farther than I can run full-steam in a corset, but she's right. The truth is hard and unfair, but there it is.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset.

People will believe anything it it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Trust me: If God exists, he'll know I'm faking it.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Aww, Sheba. So you're working for Evie. Honestly, who isn't working for himself in this meshuga world? Some people just hide it better than others.

Got a better theory?

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

By definition, his job as an enigmalogist meant he needed to keep an open mind about anything, no matter how strange; his resistance, even skepticism, about the possibility of a phenomenon like lycanthropy was something he couldn't explain.

How can dreams be secondhand? Lissie asked, sounding both skeptical and intrigued. Addie flipped on the headlights, watched the snowflakes dancing in the beams. Sometimes people give up on them, because they don't fit anymore. Or they just leave them behind, for one reason or another. Then someone else comes along, finds them, and believes they might be worth something after all.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

Everything popular is wrong.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'