Quotes About Skepticism

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

Cord followed up with, "I like it here, but it's beginning to feel creepy. Does anyone else think it's creepy?" "You're talking to a bunch of guys," Yul said. "No one here is going to validate your feelings." She tossed sand at him.

When later generations come to read about our history they will think they are reading a romance, and not believe a word of it.

He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world. And so he had an instinctive skepticism of any system of thought, religious or theorical, that pretended to encompass that miracle, and in so doing sought to draw limits around it.

That sounds like bulshytt!

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.