Quotes About Skepticism

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

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

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Doubt breeds doubt.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.

I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.

I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.