Quotes About Skepticism

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Better be too credulous than too skeptical

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Women distrust men too much in general, and too little in particular.

I'm from Missouri; you must show me.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

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