Quotes About Skepticism

Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to.

finally smiled for real. "Look, you're my doubting

In 1898, Tesla announced his latest invention: a way to remotely control machines with radio technology. Skepticism was widely expressed and quickly diffused thanks to his Madison Square Garden demonstration of remotely driving a small metal boat through an indoor pond. Many spectators believed that he was

diagrammed the motor in the sand while his friend watched, unsure of what to think. After all, such a machine was theoretically impossible. In fact, seven years earlier, his professor at a college in Austria ridiculed him for suggesting that direct current generators could

He steepled his fingers in monkish solemnity. "You cannot hide from Fate, my son." Sarah grunted. "People don't have fates." "No: fates have people," Jet said, suddenly serious.

Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise

It took me quite a while to realize that my youthful excitability was right and my father's wealth of experience was wrong; that there are things that cannot be dealt with by calm skepticism.

Why is it that all men like to lie?

Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca)

La paranoia —que para mí es un estado de acceso a la verdad— se ponía a descascararlo todo con sus garritas de hurón: no podía evitarlo.

Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

Lamia was not sure whether she liked Leyla. She was too quiet, too knowing, her eyes were always probing, she felt, and she was clearly a bad influence on Tala, enticing her to museums and libraries when she should be shopping.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

One of the gentleman guests chuckled. "Do you think the mother made up the story out of whole cloth?

The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn't trust the Englishman in the dark

This was an age of utopianism. Political leaders had utopian visions, and so did many citizens, especially the younger generation. The spirit is hard to capture in an age of skepticism, since utopianism, like revolution, is so unreasonable.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

Deny everything. Admit nothing. Demand proof

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.