Quotes About Skepticism

Mia madre vedeva sempre il male dove con mio grande fastidio si scopriva presto o tardi che il male c'era davvero, e il suo occhio strabico pareva fatto apposta per individuare i movimenti segreti del rione.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Trying to explain all the steps was boring and exhausting. I kept imagining Ivan getting bored, or not believing me, and it kept sounding like I was putting the blame on other people, like Svetlana and her mom. When I tried to put the blame on myself, it was also tedious and boring, and in the end I gave up trying to explain anything.

Anyway, how could therapy even work on me, when I was so far from sharing Svetlana's therapist-like belief that people should be healthy and well-adjusted, that they should go to bed at the same time every night, even if they were reading or having an interesting conversation, or that it was great and life-affirming to go hiking with some guy, or to get married? Of course therapy worked for someone who believed those things.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

It was, after all, Voltaire who was reputed to be the source of the famous quip that if God had not existed it would have been necessary to invent him, if only because, so long as his wife, his tailor, his lawyer, and his servants could be persuaded to believe in the threat of punishment in an afterlife, "I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often."49

MILO: You must be joking. ANDREW: You would know it if I were.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fools.

A crook remains always sickly infatuated to the love or likes for own looks; and the people who have doubt on this outlook can look into the lifestyle of the crafty people from the genuine history book.

A person can be seen happy always by spending time often with many people around him only in two conditions. Either he knows nothing about their true intentions towards him or he thinks merely about own profits rather than any benefit for them.

A person can't trust the people around oneself to the extent s/he has self-interest & lust as dirt & dust spread across from the top to bottom crust of her/his mind.

A person should not judge too quickly, but that does not mean to not doubt and let go the wily people easily.

A person who can actually understand and identify the people who often deceive and bluff , even slight indication is enough; but those whose mind is empty or heart is dirty, it is not only tough but impossible to convince them as even the foolproof evidence against the liar/sweet talker is trashed by them as worthless stuff.

A person who has been betrayed many times even dreads to meet the people; One who has deceived others many times enjoys to have often crowd around oneself.

A person who has deceived the people twice through false promises, still trusting him or believing in his words again is like fooling themselves only.

A person who is always too sweet with the people tends to cheat them only.

A person who is truly honest in words to others is subjected to all sort of integrity and credibility test, but the rest of the people without any worry and questioning can always enjoy their time the best.

A person who seems often happy in the midst of people is either mentally sleepy or intrinsically crafty in life

A wise man thinks several times before trusting any weeping woman and many times he sees big-size lies in her teary eyes

As seeing more this self-centered world, so believing less the nice word of a person who is often seen with the herd of people

As the support to a person increases, so should be the rise of the doubt either on his/her intention or on the intent of the people in support or on all of them because we live in a selfish world.