Quotes About Skepticism

How do we know you're not lying?" asked Orik.

She didn't have much faith in the accountability of governments.

it really did seem as though the company didn't want the project undertaken at all.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything. Or he believes in one thing at a time. He believes a second thing only if it somehow follows from the first thing. He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Jangan percaya begitu saja pada apa yang disebut sebagai sejarah

Never trust originality.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

Creo que, a ciertas alturas, ya no hay diferencia entre acostumbrarse a fingir que se cree y acostumbrarse a creer

A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there's perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.

don't trust renewals of the human race when curias and courts speak of them.

I believe that when too many people gather together, lured by a promise and immediately demanding something, there is never any knowing who among them speaks.

No es que el incrédulo no deba creer en nada. No cree en todo. Cree en una cosa cada vez, y en una segunda cuando deriva de alguna manera de la primera. Avanza como un miope, es metódico, no aventura horizontes. Dos cosas no relacionadas entre sí, creer en las dos, y con la idea de que, en algún lugar, haya una tercera, oculta, que las vincula, esto es la credulidad.

Vale para el Pentágono y para la CIA, pero no me dirás que todas las revistas de coches dependen de los servicios secretos de la demoplutojudeocracia al acecho.

If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.

Qué pensaba yo en realidad hace quince años? Consciente de mi incredulidad me sentía culpable entre la multitud de los que creían. Puesto que sentía que no se equivocaban, decidí creer como quien se toma una aspirina. Daño no hace, y uno mejora.

Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.

Ruh yaln?z gerçeÄŸi düÅŸünürken dingindir; iyi iÅŸlerden sevinç duyar; gerçeÄŸe ve iyi ÅŸeylereyse gülünmez. Ä°sa'n?n gülmeyiÅŸinin nedeni buydu iÅŸte. Gülme kuÅŸkunun k??k?rt?c?s?d?r.' 'Ama kimi zaman kuÅŸkulanmak doÄŸrudur.

That must be it, you were compassionate about the little things and cynical about the big things.

Evo zašto mi se dopada ova mašina - glupa je, ne veruje, ne tera me da verujem, radi ono što joj kažem, ako sam ja glup, glupa je i ona ili on. To je pošten odnos.

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

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything... He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Gli Adepti del Velame ricordano qualcuno che sentendosi dire: Signore, lei è un ladro, mi creda!, reagisca con: Che cosa intende con 'mi creda'? Vuol forse insinuare che io sia diffidente?