Quotes About Skepticism

As Gustave Flaubert said, "I defend the poor Republic but I don't believe in it.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt—and talked.

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

Some people think technology has the answers.

I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

Technology. It's like science, only useless.

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

It's about time we start criticizing faith.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.