Quotes About Skepticism

It seems to me that a queen who trusts no one is as foolish as a queen who trusts everyone.

Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I … am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.

Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.

Look around you, and take a good whiff. They're all liars here … and every one better than you.

Are you blind or bought?

A sweet offer . . . yet sweets can be poisoned.

Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.

Men are such faithless creatures

My wet nurse said the same thing, Will," Royce replied. "Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead." His voice echoed, too loud in the twilit forest.

Slynt looked about the solar, at the other Eastwatch men. "Does this boy think I fell off a turnip wagon onto my head?

Expect nothing of Walder Frey, and you will never be surprised.

fools believe in foolish things.

My wet nurse said the same thing, Will," Royce replied. "Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit. There are things to

what good is it to wear a crown? The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.

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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

What is horrible about politicians and cops is that they look as though they were made for the job.

They choose not to believe. Or they think we are lying. The crime is so enormous, they won't believe it. That's what the Germans are counting on.