Quotes About Skepticism

Doubtful disputations.

Life is full of FAKE PEOPLE, trust No One.

Don't hang noodles on my ears.

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?

I hear they give out poisoned chocolate.

The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example they do not then believe in nothing.... They commence believing in anything.

One of these was Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens, founded by Plato three hundred years before. He inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the nature of things unattainable. Such ideas were well judged to appeal to a student of rhetoric who had learned to argue all sides of a case.

Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had no basis for accepting the existence of either cause and effect or natural laws… Hume's scepticism about cause and effect and his agnosticism about the external world are of course jettisoned the moment he leaves his study.

Ah, so the perfidious female is a common species in America too, eh?" inquired the French officer, laughing again. "Isn't it a worldwide phenomenon?

Assume the worst, believe no-one, and make your move only when you are certain that you are unbeatable or have, at worst, exceptionally good odds in your favour.

It is only likely frauds that are detected.

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

From Pünd's experience, people who were so insistent on the truth were very rarely telling it.

Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?

He sounded almost too genuine to be genuine.

being published. But I'd known Alan Conway for eleven years, or I thought I had, and I found it almost impossible to believe that he could have produced this, all four hundred and twenty pages of it. It was as if he was whispering to me as I lay there in the darkness, telling me something I didn't want to hear.

I never believe everything anyone says.' 'Including me?' He smiled. 'Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?

she's trying another tack. 'Do you really believe

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing.

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens.

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.