Quotes About Skepticism

Be slow to trust a man with clothing that was too new. You didn't get to wear new, clean clothing by doing honest work.

No podemos dar por sentado que solo porque algo sea antiguo vaya a ser cierto.

I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving.

So?" Kaladin asked her. "What do you think?" "I think you're going to look extremely silly using it. I can't wait.

Never trust a man who tells you good news, Reen had always said. It's the oldest, but easiest, way to con someone.

It's helpful to keep in mind Alberto Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle or what's sometimes known as Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

Conspiracy thinking is all about fear-based self-protection and our intolerance for uncertainty.

To the conspiratorial mind, shit never just happens.

She still doesn't trust my motives?" He was grinning now.

Besides, there was always the chance that Sir Frederick was being less than honest; his reputation, after all, was far from savoury.

It is then I face a momentous decision. Shivering in the rags of my seventy-four years, I have two choices. I can escape below into skepticism and intellectualism, hanging on for dear life. Or, with radical amazement, I can stay on deck and boldly stand in surrendered faith to the truth of my belovedness, caught up in the reckless raging fury that they call the love of God. And learn to pray.

You don't return people's smiles—it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.

It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk.

Never trust any thought arrived at sitting down.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.

Così i governi ci dimostrano quanto facilmente gli uomini possano essere ingannati e persino autoingannarsi nel proprio interesse.

Let us not, my friends, be wheedled and cheated into good behavior to earn the salt of our eternal porridge, whoever they are that attempt it. Let us wait a little, and not purchase any clearing here, trusting that richer bottoms will soon be put up. It is but thin soil where we stand; I have felt my roots in a richer ere than this.