Quotes About Skepticism

We accepted all people as they were and trusted nobody until they had proved themselves trustworthy.

The Lord had my trust, yet of others I was not so sure.

Now you be careful in the real world said Armpit Not everyone is as nice as us.

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.

Never take advice!

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. (Thomas Jefferson)

Perhaps out of a self-protective instinct, Bill taught his children to be wary of strangers and even of himself.

As he watched people scheme and grovel for Rockefeller's fortune, it was hard to preserve his faith in human nature.

If she was not pretending, he concluded, then there must be a vulgar streak in her somewhere. Impossible that a man could really be in love with a girl if he could think about vulgar streaks in this way. If

Some seem to forget that I've worked with those on movies and television. I warn you. Television may be exciting, but always take what you watch or read with a grain of salt. The more extreme these people act, the more money they make. They don't care about us. You should always do your own research using verified primary sources. Editorials or articles published can be exciting, but they are seldom the truth. This country will eventually be destroyed for the sake of a paycheck.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

believes in God the way he believes in politicians-he knows He exists but doesn't count on Him for anything.

They had run out of words.... Then he and the Lamp were gone.... Ruse swallowed hard and then began counting bones again in the dark. Then when he reached the right elbow he stopped, and started counting suspects.

I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.

for our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water.

si pudiera alguien demostrar que no hay que creer absolutamente nada, por causa de la posibilidad del engaño, yo puedo demostrar que hay que creerlo todo, por causa de la posibilidad del engaño.

Nosotros los seres humanos tenemos un temor natural a equivocarnos cuando nos formamos una opinión demasiado buena acerca de un ser humano. En cambio, no tememos quizá al error cuando pensamos mal de otro ser humano...

It is related of a Swedish priest that, profoundly disturbed by the sight of the effect his address produced upon the auditors, who were dissolved in tears, he said soothingly, Children, do not weep; the whole thing might be a lie.

De omnibus dubitandum est

Mi tarea consiste en poner freno a una difusión mentirosa del Cristianismo y en ayudarle al Cristianismo a sacudirse de una masa de Cristianos nominales.

But one thing I will not do; no, not for anything in the world: I will not, though it were merely with the last quarter of the last joint of my little finger, I will not take part in what is known as official Christianity, which by suppression and by artifice gives the impression of being the Christianity of the New Testament; and upon my knees I thank my God that He has compassionately prevented me from becoming too far embroiled in it.

AÅŸa cum filozofia începe cu îndoiala, o via?? care s? poat? fi numit? uman? începe cu ironia.