Quotes About Skepticism

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Trusting people, the kind who are not on their guard and do not take precautions, because it is always easy to get away with wronging them.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.

Don't believe anything I've told you—merely because I said it.

harsh verdict of the great philosopher Lucretius: all religions were fundamentally immoral, because the superstitions they peddled wrought more evil than good.

When this book was written in the early 1950s, I was still quite impressed by the evidence for what is generally called the paranormal, and used it as a main theme of the story. Four decades later, after spending some millions of dollars of Yorkshire Television's money researching my Mysterious World and Strange Powers programmes, I am an almost total skeptic. I have seen far too many claims dissolve into thin air, far too many demonstrations exposed as fakes.

Adamski's Disease.

No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

WATSON: Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural explanation.      HOLMES: if Dr. Mortimer's surmise should be correct, and we are dealing with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end of our investigation. But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back upon this one.

We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.

I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them.

I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them. I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. I

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.

straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha.

Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one.

Many a woman has been fooled by a persuasive man on his best behavior," Greta said. "Some of them do have good in them. Some are bad right down to the bone.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?' 'None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot.

Is everyone really crazy but me?

skeptics, believers, and good croquet players are harder to come by today . . .

I'll tell them,' she said, and the baby looked at me cynically.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.