Quotes About Skepticism

Great intellects are skeptical.

What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you.

The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There is too much charm and sugar in these feelings of 'for others,' 'not for myself,' for us not to need to become doubly suspicious at this point and to ask: 'are these not perhaps-seductions?

I mistrust all Systematisers and I avoid them — the will to a System is a lack of integrity.

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

They would have to sing better songs to make me believe in their Redeemer; his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Do not let yourself be deceived: great spirits are sceptical. Zarathustra is a sceptic. The power, the freedom that comes from the strength and super-strength of spirit, proves itself through scepticism.

El cinismo es la única forma en que las almas vulgares rozan lo que es honestidad;

88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.

O povo, contudo, dizia-me que a orelha grande era não só um homem, mas um grande homem, um gênio. Eu, porém, nunca acreditei no povo quando ele me falava de grandes homens, e sustento a minha idéia de que era um aleijado às avessas que tinha pouquíssimo de tudo e uma coisa em demasia.

Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.

Women are horrible. I mean, quite as horrible as men. Oh, is there anyone in the wide world that has aught but ice water in his or her veins?

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.

My jaw has been wired and rewired. It's incredible to think people would fake that.

When wireless cellphones first came out, analysts predicted that at peak, it would only replace 5% of landlines. They said the quality wasn't good enough. Clearly that was improved. I think you'll find a similar thing in solar.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

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

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.