Quotes About Skepticism

"They say so" is half a lie.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

Skeptics are never deceived.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.

Great intellects are skeptical.

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

"Que scais-je?" was the motto of Montaigne, As also of the first academicians: That all is dubious which man may attain, Was one of their most favourite positions. There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain As any of Mortality's conditions; So little do we know what we're about in This world, I doubt if doubt itself would be doubting.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Qabalists assert that Reason is a weapon inadequate to the Search for Reality since its nature is essentially self-contradictory. Hume and Kant both saw this; but the one became a sceptic in the widest sense of the term, and with the other, the conclusion hid itself behind a verbose transcendentalism.

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.

Nikad nisam voleo preteranu ose?ajnost ni ta polusjajna, sumnjiva stanja duha u kojima nas uobrazilja tako lako odvodi na na svoje pogrešne i jalove puteve.

Kad vidiš ovako ?oveka suviše sigurna u sebe i ono što kaže, hitra i slatka na re?i, koji ti nudi što mu ne tražiš, odobrava što kažeš, a ostaje pri onom što je namislio, znaj da je kurva i bezdušnik, i kloni ga se koliko možeš.

Sobald eine Regierung es für notwendig befindet, ihren Bürgern durch Plakate Frieden und Wohlstand zu versprechen, muss man auf der Hut sein und das Gegenteil davon erwarten.

used the sordid details of my stories as an excuse to talk badly about men, judge them, mistrust them, expect little from them, and give of myself begrudgingly as I waited for the axe to fall on my neck.

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.

Why does there have to be a gift for every damn thing?" Eve complained. "Retail conspiracy." Roarke patted her knee. "I bet it is," Eve said darkly. "I just bet it is.

Oh, come on. People see ghosts all the time." "That's because people, by and large, are whacked.

A cop did better cynical and suspicious.

I thought it was 'innocent until proven guilty'' That's just one of the bigger lies we live by.