Quotes About Skepticism

He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

My secret demon is called: What's the use?

To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.

A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to common sense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face

Boy meets girl. So what?

I don't trust him, you see we're friends.

No temas preguntar, compañero! No te dejes convencer! ¡Compruébalo tu mismo! Lo que no sabes por ti, no lo sabes

When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I don't think it's spiritually economic to be a skeptic about absolutely everything.

I've lost my faith in science.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.

All four of them looked at Diane as if she had said Kendel had just returned from her trip and had brought them a unicorn skeleton.

something may be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken.

But what keeps throwing us back is so much backbiting and gossiping and lying going on; even among the counterculture everybody either wants to be worshipped or be king of the hill. I'm seriously beginning to question whether I've met an honest person in my life.

Big Foot saw me, but no one believes him.

People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.

I'm sort of a baseball agnostic; I make it a point never to believe anything just because it is widely known to be so.

The Warren Court swung the balance of power toward the accused—and the counterbalance of skepticism moved the other way. Trials were once spontaneous, quick and dramatic; now they are rehearsed, endless and often boring, interminable bullshit from professional witnesses who have practiced their skills at sparring with defense attorneys. The jury looks upon the accused as if he must be guilty, or why would he be here?