Quotes About Skepticism

I'm afraid that's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

Telling an adult to go see something for themselves always works. They never take your word for it. They always, always, have to go see, and Hungry was no different.

By 'aha' she means 'one minute' Stephano claims he knows nothing about snakes, the next he claims he is an expert! By 'aha' she means 'Stephano has been lying to us'. By 'aha' she means 'we've finally exposed his dishonesty to you'! By 'aha' she means 'aha'!

Nobody´s going to throw you overboard," Violet said impatiently, although I´m sorry to tell you that Violet was wrong about that.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

It doesn't take much to make the daily round with one's employer work smoothly. A couple of 'yessirs' when you know that 'not on your life' is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you've spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn't take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I've ever considered giving

I never really trust drinking water anywhere but Scotland; and I've never been to Scotland. I

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be skeptics, which expresses beautifully what Plato conveys through his dialogues.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

But if you believe in coincidence, you probably shouldn't be a cop.

I'm a detective. I ask questions until I like the answers.

Earl Bartholomew is a teenager . Believe me, you just can't trust teenagers. Besides, I added, I think Earl's a little strange. He's taken too many ramps without a helmet.

In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

I'm bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false. They're deceiving themselves.

I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. --Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940)

When confronting a claim about the distant past or a statement about what happened yesterday, students—indeed, all Americans—need to develop informed skepticism, not nihilistic cynicism.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

Advice is a dangerous thing, the Watcher responded. It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.

the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.