Quotes About Skepticism

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Never trust a man who can dance.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.