Quotes About Skepticism

Is truth something that in fact we do—and should—especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of bullshit ?

Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.

Like you, my boy, I am a Scientific Humanist and feel no need for the aid of the supernatural.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

I've become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I'm able to, then perhaps I'll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

Just because Oprah said it, that doesn't make it true.

Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the modern distrust of authority but lost their trust in reason and have found nothing to replace it. This is the crux of all postmodern thought.

In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture. As a result, postmoderns take distinctly anti-modern views on the deeper questions of human life: social, political, moral, and spiritual questions.

For postmoderns, no knowledge is fully reliable and no concepts are absolutely indispensable.

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

Hello there," she said. Then she remembered she hated him and frowned. "What are you doing here?" "Your horse returned without you early this morning. I feared the worst." Her heart stuttered, but she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of gratitude. She huffed. "I didn't need you to come rescue me, you know." "And yet here I am.

Our current higher education system is steeped in a philosophy that doubts our ability to even perceive the physical world. That philosophy is called postmodernism.

The wisdom of elders is ancient and necessary in human history, and there is deep value in being skeptical of the wisdom of elders, when that wisdom is out of place, or of the wrong time.

Blind faith isn't always a good thing.

we all have a tendency to mistrust each other, to be suspicious of what we don't understand.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.

Nadie está intentando matarme con engaños».

Do not trust the Horse, Trojans/ Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. —Laocoön in Virgil's Aeneid

The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?