Quotes About Skepticism

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and that it conformed to his principles as well, before he did it.

The words 'mainly in America' translated to me as 'this is bollocks' and I sat back in my chair with a sigh.

That's wonderful. I do like a man that tells you right out he's looking out for himself. Don't we all? I don't trust a man that says he's not. And the man that's telling the truth when he says he's not I distrust most of all, because he's and ass and an ass that's going contrary to the laws of nature.

I told Nora: "I'm not one to suggest that your charm wouldn't make any man turn himself inside out for you, but don't be too sure that guy isn't kidding us." "So it's come to that," she said. "You're jealous of policemen.

What was her fearsome secret?" I told her what Dorothy had told me. "It sounds like a lot of hooey." "Why?" "Why not? Everything else we've got from them has been hooey.

We believed your two hundred dollars.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

You're never satisfied until you've got two buts and an if attached to everything.

Nora stopped drinking to ask: "Did Wynant really steal it?" "Tch, tch, tch," I said. "This is Christmas Eve: try to think good of your fellow man.

I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.