Quotes About Skepticism

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

I am not that afraid to lose believers, I am afraid not to win the unbelievers.

I don't believe in atheists. I have never seen a real one.

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

The youth is poisoned by systematic lies.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.

It's good to be cynical, he said. That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.

A vjerovali su još i u nešto što se zvalo Raj;no unato? toga pili su goleme koli?ine alkohola.

Cien repeticiones tres noches por semana, durante cuatro años -pensó Bernard Marx, que era especialista en hipnopedia-. Sesenta y dos mil cuatrocientas repeticiones crean una verdad. ¡Idiotas!

science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

History is bunk.

The mental climate of our age is not favorable to visionaries.

Sto powtórzeÅ" przez trzy noce tygodniowo w ciÄ…gu czterech lat, pomyÅ›laÅ' Bernard Marks, fachowiec od hipnopedii. Sze??dziesiÄ…t dwa tysiÄ…ce czterysta powtórzeÅ" przeradza siÄ™ w jedna prawdÄ™. Idioci! - Bernard Marks, Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat Aldous Huxley

But this is a general objection of the sceptical sort to all miracles of whatever kind, and leadeth anon into the quagmire of arguments about Free Will. The Adept will do better to rely upon The Book of the Law , which urgeth constantly to action. Even rash action is better than none, by that Light; let the Magician then argue that his folly is part of the natural order which worketh all so well. — Liber DCXXXIII De Thaumaturgia

Directly a man begins to say Yes without the question Why? he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar.

Todas las generalizaciones son peligrosas, incluyendo esta.

Chiedersi se le cose sono vere prima di chiedersi cosa ne pensiamo è un esercizio che suona perfino ingenuo, tanto è fuori moda.