Quotes About Skepticism

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

There's no truth anymore.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!

I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

The truth! Since when have the majority on Earth cared about the truth?

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.

What is your type?"I shrugged. "Non-existent.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

Trust is a word created by liars.

Beware of those who clam to have all the answers.

The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.

The truth is that no one is truthful these days!

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.