Quotes About Skepticism

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.