Quotes About Skepticism

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you've always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Begin with disbelief. Analyse, test, prove everything, and then take it.

I don't believe in God. Not with my mind. Not with my sense. I believe in what you can see and feel and hear and know. But sometimes a mood comes over me when all of life seems mysterious. The seasons. Things that grow. The different ways to be a person. My dreams.