Quotes About Skepticism

Montaignes ware plezier is het zoeken, niet het vinden. Hij is niet een van die filosofen die op zoek zijn naar de steen der wijzen, naar een nuttige formule. Hij wil dogma noch leer en is permanent op zijn hoede voor starre beweringen: 'Niets boud beweren, niets lichtvaardig ontkennen.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.

Really, Joe? Really? You freaking think so?

There is a certain segment of knitters who refuse to accept that there may be such a thing as a wool allergy. They accept that you can be allergic to bees, peanut butter, daisies, or penicillin, but not their precious wool. They maintain that the allergic have simply not yet met the "right" wool.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.