Quotes About Skepticism

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

It is a gift to be able to kill doubt with doubt.

8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Kant's articulation of the synthetic a priori put an end to Hume's skepticism and set the stage for the full flowering of German thought in Hegel, who reintroduced Logos to the post-Enlightenment West and simultaneously set the stage for the emergence of the German nation in 1871.

We like to say that generalizations are always wrong and usually helpful.

Naturally, that doesn't mean that all the news which now reaches us from all over the world is true. One of the things I also learned was not to believe everything I read in the newspapers.

I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious.

Straight?" He trembled as he asked this supreme question. "Scudder? A little too smart to be straight.

Not even that. It may be halfway in the wrong direction. I can't explain. I don't believe in all these fads, and yet I don't like saying that I don't believe in them.

From the day I met you, I've known that you are a glass-half-empty-and-maybe-poisonous guy.

The savagery of a young cynic never rests

I didn't believe in such things. I believed in facts, science and, every once in a while, human beings.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting.