Quotes About Skepticism

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

You're not going to kill me, skin me, and wear my head as a hat?

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.

I had no idea Scotland Yard employed novelists these days," said Lord Bancroft coldly. "Of the penny dreadful variety, no less.

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself and others.

We need proof in our society.

There are only two people in the world I trust: you and me—and I'm not so sure about you.

The question is not how pilots can be so silly to rely on this, but how they have been led to believe (built up a mental model) that this is actually effective.