Quotes About Skepticism

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Mirad que no son tiempos de creer a todos, sino a los que viereis van conforme a la vida de Cristo.

Mary: What are you teaching Him at that public high school of yours, Mrs. McElroy? Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.