Quotes About Skepticism

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and muttering the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Vous croyez donc aux journaux, vous  ? – Moi, pas le moins du monde ;

En général, on ne demande de conseils, disait-il, que pour ne les pas suivre; ou, si on les a suivis, que pour avoir quelqu'un à qui l'on puisse faire le reproche de les avoir donnés.»

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby

I believe in tragedy," Shelby responds coldly. "Not miracles.

and if a fool is believed then those who believe him are even bigger fools.

Do you ever think that there used to be more sensible explanations about things than there are now?

Cuando estás fatal es cuando intentan pillarte.

For Lorenz, virgins were not a part of his world. He was skeptical of many things I said. Later, when the serology reports proved that what I had said was not a lie, that I had been a virgin, and that I was telling the truth, he could not respect me enough. I think he felt responsible, somehow. It was, after all, in his world where this hideous thing had happened to me. A world of violent crime.

Had my brother really seen me somehow, or was he merely a boy telling beautiful lies?

Do not be like cows grazing watching the butcher.

Susannah was glad that, on principle, she rarely listened to men. Rarely believed, really, a word they said. No matter how much she might love them.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

Only a fool would blindly believe everything she was told.

the weight of evidence 'cannot convince those who do not wish to believe

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

You don't believe in miracles. Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

I've noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.