Quotes About Skepticism

Saying no, I thought, that has always been my forte, and no wonder, given that the stupidity of the world is rivalled only by its ugliness.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Deixarei de lado a questão sobre o que é uma tolice: a ilusão, ou sua cura. Um pirronista uma vez disse, Quem poderá nos dizer se nosso estado não é o de morte, e dos alegados mortos, o de vida?

ElocvenÈ›a, când nu e declamaÈ›ie de împrumut, e prisos de evlavie; aÈ™a c?, într-o epoc? de necredin??, elocvenÈ›a nu-È™i g?seÈ™te loc.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.

Don't take my word for it! I challenge you to do your own homework.

I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know..." I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.

I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know…" I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.

I have qualms and wonder what a qualm would look like if you painted it -- probably like a bowl of melting ice cream or a dish of Jell-o just before it sets.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

Está rodeado de pessoas esquisitas, as quais realmente não compreendo. Não têm aparência de espertalhões, nem de gente honesta. Às vezes parecem-me honestas, mas não consigo confiar nelas.

Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

[F*@%] all the people who say, "God bless," and then don't bother to complete the sentence. Who they are, I haven't the slightest. But, if I were God, I would not honor such a request.

God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.

WARNING: DON'T ACCEPT ANY NUMBER AT FACE VALUE. Numbers are not magical, and they aren't sacred.

With love? Did those words have meaning for Mark Scott? Or was it just a line that people used—and perhaps even more so when it felt as if affection had begun to evaporate?

Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

And they would not believe me precisely because they knew what I said was true.

Most Negroes cannot risk assuming that the humanity of white people is more real to them than their color. And this leads, imperceptibly but inevitably, to a state of mind in which, having long ago learned to expect the worst, one finds it very easy to believe the worst.