Quotes About Skepticism

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

You can't trust very many people.

If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.

People never wanted to tell me their life stories. They usually scooted out of my way and said things like, "Take whatever you want; just go.

When I was little, my grandmother gave me this advice. She said, 'Audrey, if you meet a man who is smooth, who says all the right things and knows all the tricks to make a woman happy, you've got to ask yourself how he got that way.

We smiled at each other. Ms. Vigue was doing her best to appear approachable, while I did my best to appear harmless. We were both lying as hard as we could.

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

May God protect us especially from our friends, for we shall manage to watch out for our enemies ourselves.

Tutto ciò che è stato scritto dagli uomini sulle donne deve essere ritenuto sospetto dal momento che essi sono ad un tempo giudici e parti in causa.

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the condi-tions under which one is willing to give up one's position.

Had he wanted to get her out of the apartment that night for some reason?

Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they believe, because believing is easier than disbelieving, and because anything which is written down is likely to be 'true in a way'.

I have seen much of human beings over a long period, and I have learnt how little good to expect from them.

I ceased some time ago to believe in goodness.

Pero tener buen corazón solo sirve para que algunos quieran clavarte un cuchillo en él. Lo consideran un objetivo, como si fuera la diana de los dardos. Dicen: "Vamos a por ese buen corazón.

You never know if he's being ironic or dyslexic.