Quotes About Skepticism

I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

misanthropy.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Em resumo, há nos homens, quando eles se deixam guiar pelos olhos, uma tal credulidade da qual sua majestosa sabedoria não suspeita, fazendo que os mais avisados dentre eles sejam frequentemente enganados por nós.

All cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.

He didn't trust people, especially children, who displayed signs of individuality.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself.

Whenever someone uses the word 'glitch,' which means a fault of some kind in a system, you should immediately be suspicious, because it means that they don't know what it is. A technician who uses the term 'glitch' is like a doctor who tells you you're suffering from a 'thingy,' except the doctor won't tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

Billy grinned. 'Seems to me that you might be up to no good here. Are you a bad man?' Quayle smiled back, and the lights of the bar gleamed like dying stars in the void of his eyes. 'Trust me when I say that you have no conception.' Billy's smile faded.

even if she saw a ghost, she still wouldn't believe it.

You may think me mad." "My dear fellow, we hardly know each other. I wouldn't dare to make such a judgment until we were better acquainted.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.' Oscar Wilde53

Postmodernism thus is not relativism or skepticism, as its uncomprehending critics almost daily charge, but minutely close attention to detail, a sense for the complexity and multiplicity of things, for close readings, for detailed histories, for sensitivity to differences. The postmodernists think the devil is in the details, but they also have reason to hope that none of this will antagonize God.

interesting ones." "I find that hard to believe," Linda said.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.