Quotes About Skepticism

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is going to say at all as true. I'm not going to take her on her word.

You doubt because you love truth.

Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.

she might be treacherous too, but if I turned from every show of love lest it should be feigned, how was I ever to find the real love which must be somewhere in every world?

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

Who cares?' she said impatiently, 'it's always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.

Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.

Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party—an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.

They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb "Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian

What I have seen of our governing class does not convince me that they have that much intel- ligence.

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for instance, he would say that god had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian

The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer believed in the future.

but I am so nauseated by Christian and Theosophical guff about the 'good and the true' that I prefer the appearance of evil to that of good.

To some people, fifteen years of good loyal service means squat. All's we can say is, watch your damn backs.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.

I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist

I felt for too long anyway that there was something creaky about this story. You needn't try to understand, but when all the material clues manage to confuse matters rather than clarify them, it means they've been faked … and everything, without exception, is fake in this case. It all creaked.