Quotes About Skepticism

What do you do when you have lost faith in the place you call home? That wasn't quite the right way to put it: I never really had faith in the United States in the strongest sense of the word.

If the condition of the love of country is a lie, the love itself, no matter how genuine, is a lie.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.

He never has seen Seattle; he says he's crazy to; he says he doesn't believe there is any such place or any state called Washington that has a town named Walla Walla.

Algo del escéptico que carga bajo la piel le dice que prolongar algo no es sinónimo de salvarlo

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

A Short History of Medicine 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

"Murphy's Law": If something can go wrong, it will.

Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him.

When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.

People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg.

I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him.