Quotes About Skepticism

When he came home that night he was in a very somber mood, having begun to see at last how those might be right who had laughed at him for his faith in America.

In the beginning he had assumed that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts; but now that he had looked into their hearts, he rejected the explanation.

Everywhere I turn I see it—credulity being exploited, and men of practical judgment, watching the game and seeing through it, made hard in their attitude of materialism. How

but they know that's all bait for suckers, and if you could hear them laughing at you behind your back, you'd realize how you're being used.

that he sold out his convictions mattered less, for the people had become so cynical about public men that they hoped only to find the least dishonest.

De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything)

What do you think, boy? is he just another lying bastard, or what?' 'Prrrt,' the cat said on a rising intonation, his eyes closed to slits. 'I thought you'd say that. I agree, I know how to pick them

I think, therefore I doubt.

Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.

He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.

With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.

Basta guardare certe persone per diffidarne; si intuisce che sono anime nere, inquieti dietro, minacciosi davanti.

Desconfiemos. El pasado tiene un rostro : la superstición, y una máscara : la hipocresía. Denunciemos el rostro y arranquemos la máscara.

We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.

Words can be liars, we must not blindly believe what they say.

As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as seen through a lens.

don't believe in love. Or marriage.

on a cough, but of course there was

Vy moshennitsa?

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

technology that seems magical and miraculous can encourage and confirm credulous people's belief in make-believe magic and miracles.

it was the sudden, shocking exposure of actual conspiracies starting in the 1970s that made Americans overcorrect, to assume that anything bad is the intentional result of some conspiracy. Which may make it harder, ironically, to expose and dismantle the rare real ones.