Quotes About Skepticism

I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn't believe me.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

Good advice" is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little effect......

Yeah, Hoyt," Legerski said, changing the subject, "I've heard of you before." His voice was cautious and a little weary. Cody recognized the intonation and had heard it many times from older law enforcement types.

So, which of the two men do you think is telling the truth?" Sebastian asked, his gaze on her profile. "Van der Pals? Or Vescovi?" She shook her head, "I'm not convinced either of them is. Although if I had to put money on one or the other, I'd pick the Italian harpist over the decorative Dutch courtier any day.

Wiedzia?e? i nie powiedzia?e? mi? - Czy uwierzy?aby? mi, gdybym przyszed? do Ciebie, nie przynosz?c dowodów? Musia?em je mie?, skoro Ty, Pani, raz za razem rozstrzyga?a? w?tpliwo?ci na jego korzy??. By? nies?ychanie ostro?ny; samo przej?cie jego korespondencji wymaga?o cudów zr?czno?ci.

Throughout history, skilled laborers have applied sophistication and skepticism to their encounters with new tools and their decisions about whether to adopt them. There's no reason why knowledge workers cannot do the same when it comes to the Internet—the fact that the skilled labor here now involves digital bits doesn't change this reality.

From Descartes's skepticism came the radical belief that the individual seeking certainty trumped a God or king bestowing truth.

As the author Max Brooks quipped in a 2017 TV appearance, "We need to reevaluate [our current relationship with] online information sort of the way we reevaluated free love in the 80s.

He's a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.

I had never been able when there to fully elude the awareness that I was surrounded by thieves and killers, each of whom had a very good explanation for his or her acts but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

Who can dispute that all scientific work should be studied carefully and critically considered? And having an open mind is also an asset, but not so open that your brains fall out.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

She is certain[ly] very clever, in a doubtful sense of the word.

Even the editor of the highly respected Medical Record found more to fear than to admire in Lister's theory. "Judging the future by the past," he wrote, "we are likely to be as much ridiculed in the next century for our blind belief in the power of unseen germs, as our forefathers were for their faith in the influence of spirits, of certain planets and the like, inducing certain maladies.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.