Quotes About Skepticism

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Everything was believed except the truth.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

The truth is overrated.

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.