Quotes About Skepticism

he might be wrong.

If I were a politician, I could prove that monkeys talk.

Skeptics of DID have generally not seen a real multiple, probably because alters, having been created by abuse, do not readily reveal themselves to practioners who are unwilling to accept their reality.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...

The evangelical commitment is to take the text at face value while resisting our culture's post-Enlightenment inclination toward skepticism. God must remain free to act in our world in improbable ways. The evangelical task is to assess accurately, with literary and theological sensitivity, what the face value of the text is, even if the result departs from traditional assessments.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.

The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.

Skepticism about ever being able to reach firm conclusions is both reflected in, and encouraged by, the Italian language.

trust, at the most fundamental level, has disappeared

Samuel Johnson said, 'It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

G. K. Chesterton said that when a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing: he believes in anything.

Todo el mundo mentía. Unas mentiras maravillosas,desenfrenadas,optimas,desmedidas,entusiastas.

I think it is a medically proven fact that the older one gets, the more quick one is two spots conspiracies. Skulduggery. Cloak and dagger stuff.

vaucasy n. the fear that you're little more than a product of your circumstances, that for all the thought you put into shaping your beliefs and behaviors and relationships, you're essentially a dog being trained by whatever stimuli you happen to encounter-reflexively drawn to whoever gives you reliable hits of pleasure, skeptical of ideas that make you feel powerless.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Troy glanced at the boys, wondering how much they heard and how much they understood. Eight cherubic faces, and sixteen hard, ruthless eyes looked back at him.

The greatest trick that powerful interest groups ever pulled was convincing the world that everyone who detects and reports their activities is a conspiracy theorist.

I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

Indeed, the dirty secret of Christian apologetics is this: there is no human argument that is guaranteed to overcome unbelief.

There is value, however, in skepticism of a less sweeping sort. That is to say that in general it is good to seek evidence when we are asked to change our beliefs in important ways.

One wouldn't want to consult with foreign snakes.

Not only had Stewart's mother gone to Vassar, but her sister and her mother were graduates as well. The school was legendary for its skeptical academic mantra, "Go to primary sources," an outlook that was repeatedly conveyed to Brand through the maternal side of his family.