Quotes About Skepticism

Sure, what is murder? Isn't it common enough in these parts? It is, indeed; but it's not for me to point out the man that is to be murdered.

El charlatán es siempre el que va de descubierta. Del astrólogo salió el astrónomo, del alquimista el químico, y del mesmerismo, la psicología experimental. El charlatán de ayer será el profesor de mañana. Andando el tiempo, hasta una materia tan sutil y resbaladiza como la de los sueños será sistematizada y puesta en orden.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. "With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out," he said.

Consider the fiddlesticks!

Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals . . .

FRANK, peeved: The trouble with you is, you don't believe in anything. JIM: And your trouble is that you believe in anything. You didn't see my kid this morning, did you?

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?

There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

Din disimulare se nasc necredin?a,nerecuno?tin?a,tr?darea.

Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.

Journalists are like dogs?when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.

In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.

Marianne had learned to live by her wits, and she took a severe and cynical view of the world.

I laughed and dismissed the idea.

however, the doubts really set in.

But doubts nevertheless creep in.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

I try to believe everything I read in the newspapers, but I had difficulty with last week's account of the London vagrant who was found, after death, to be carrying £1,500 in small change in his socks. My reason for doubting the story is that I, too, like to carry small change in my socks, but I have found that with more that £15 or £20 worth it becomes impossible to walk.

Don't believe everything they tell you, boy. A watched pot does boil and sometimes you ken tell a book by its cover. Why, iffen there's a naked lady on it, then it ain't gonna show up in no Sunday school class, now is it?