Quotes About Skepticism

You know, America celebrating for Washington — a man who was so truthful — seems kinder sacrilegious. A lot of lying Americans get together and celebrate. Americans celebrating a truthful man's birthday always reminds me of a snake charmer celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

When a thief kisses you, count your teeth.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.

I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

It's a useful habit never to believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

Jakie niebo? Jaki Bóg?! Ty nie widzisz, co si? dzieje? Ty nie widzisz, ?e Boga ju? dawno tu nie ma? A je?eli nawet jest – staruszek zni?y? g?os – to on jest po ich stronie.

"One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men."

Ghosts" are people, or part of people, anyway, and thus governed by emotional stimuli; they do not perform like trained circus animals, just to please a group of skeptics or sensation seekers. Then too, one should remember that an apparition is really a re-enactment of an earlier emotional experience, and rather a personal matter. A sympathetic visitor would encourage it; a hostile onlooker inhibit it.

Take it from me, wrinkle cream doesn't work. I've been using it for two years, and my balls still look like raisins.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

So while the totalitarian state may include a TV camera in every room, I doubt that the camera will work.