Quotes About Skepticism

Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them.

When Bruhn and Wolf first presented their findings to the medical community, you can imagine the kind of skepticism they faced. They went to conferences where their peers were presenting long rows of data arrayed in

stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

On average the people watching the videos correctly identified the lairs 56% of the time. Other sociologist have tried similar versions of the same experiment, the average for all of them? 54%. Just about everyone is terrible, police officers, judges, therapists even CIA officers running big spy networks. Everyone. Why? Tim Levine answer is called Truth-default theory.

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Suspicion, like an acid, corrodes the vessel in which it is put and eats away at the suspicious man himself: guarding oneself day and night from the entire human race, constantly devising ways of avoiding evil schemes and conspiracies, and sniffing out snares laid for you-- this is what the Talmud calls 'primary categories of damages.' And these are the things that, as rabbis say, take a man out of the world.

I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.

I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale of relying on proof through fact.

I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale on relying on proof through fact.

I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well.

It is hard for me to believe in continuous, sustained happiness, just as it is hard for me to believe in love.

For jaded people, the only pleasure left is to demolish others.

Sentimentalismo? ¿Romanticismo? Si habla en serio... ¿Por qué dudo de ella? Acaso sea que es muy sensible y la gente hipersensible es falsa cuando los demás dudan de ellos? vacilan. Y dan la impresión de ser insinceros.

Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

Cree a aquellos que buscan la verdad; duda de los que la han encontrado

Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent ; doutez de tout.