Quotes About Skepticism

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

A thief believes everybody steals.

he did not suffer bullet wounds.

Another, less polite way of saying it: People with attention issues tend to have acute bullshit detectors. We hate hypocrisy maybe more than any other human failing, and we can spot it a mile away.

A trait that showed up at about this time was my tendency not to accept anything I was told until I had checked it for myself.

Looking down, the student exclaimed, "Look, there is a $100 bill on the ground." Without a glance down or a break in stride, Fama replied, "No, there isn't. If there were, someone would have picked it up already.

Obviously no two creation stories can both be true. All of those invented by the many known thousands of religions and sects in fact have certainly been false. A great many educated citizens have realized that their own faiths are indeed false, or at least questionable in details. But they understand the rule attributed to the Roman stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger that religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Scientists by nature tend to be cautious in anything they say about religion, even when expressing skepticism. The distinguished physiologist Anton (Ajax) J. Carlson, when asked what he thought of the 1950 ex cathedra (that is, infallible) pronouncement by Pius XII that the Virgin Mary ascended bodily into heaven, is reported to have responded that he couldn't be sure because he wasn't there, but of one thing he was certain, that she passed out at thirty thousand feet.

religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

the side, yet the key was did they blink. Liars

Teori konspirasi hanya dicetuskan oleh orang-orang yang putus asa pada proses pencarian kebenaran.

When a man has been burned once with hot soup he forever after blows upon cold rice"; so these men of China will think long before trusting again a foreigner with their silver.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Never explain?your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway

Why no!" I cried, astonished. "Adela marry! You might as well suspect a faded lettuce of falling in love.

Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.

My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.

But her body, seated a few inches from mine on the wooden bench, had manifested no unease. Not even her voice, which had been sure and clear: no. Not a single sign that might lead me to think that she was lying. Thus I had no doubt. She was lying.

that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.