Quotes About Skepticism

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

There are a few genres that I am quite sceptical about, for example, horror and comedy.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

It's the cynics who never get married.

A really good detective never gets married.

People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us to the criminal we're also a bit nonplussed when someone gets in there and manipulates forensics to their advantage.

I don't believe in ghosts. I'm a real sceptic.

Black people don't really see ghosts or aliens.

I trust people until they give me a reason not to trust them.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

El que dice superstición dice credulidad –continuó Decambrais, lanzado–. El que dice credulidad dice manipulación, y el que dice manipulación dice desastre. Ésa es la plaga que azota a la humanidad, ha producido más muertos que todas las pestes juntas.

I never took it for granted that they believed any of even the most basic affirmations of the Christian faith concerning such matters as God and Jesus, sin and salvation, but always tried to speak to their skepticism and to honor their doubts. I made a point of never urging on them anything I did not believe myself. I was candid about what, like them, I was puzzled by and uncertain of. I tried to be myself. I tried to be honest.

Beware of a Yankee when he is feeding

November 1963, the administration adhered firmly to the position that the insurgency in the South had to be defeated and that no diplomacy should be undertaken until that result was ensured. Negotiations should be entered into only when there was nothing to negotiate. Note here that American officials were not merely skeptical of what negotiations might bring; they were downright fearful of the likely results.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had—power.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.