Quotes About Skepticism

How can you not have any regrets? It's impossible. No regrets? Bullshit. I don't believe anybody who tells me that.

The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse

Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?" The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun. "Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

In fact, in her experience, the more honest a person seemed, the more dishonest they usually were.

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I was beginning to be confirmed in my skepticism when the notion occurred to me of consulting, as a last result, Poetry: who knows? perhaps it would be profitable, perhaps it conceals beneath its arbitrary appearances some definitive revelation ... Illusory recourse! Poetry had outstripped be in negation and cost me even my uncertainties ...

Ourika, beware; sometimes reserve leads to duplicity.

Don't trust anyone. That's what the cards are warning you, Jenna. Everyone is lying

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Sin embargo, es el cientificismo y no la ciencia propiamente dicha el que desestima cualquier autoridad distinta a la suya.

Could be. Unlikely, but

But he was a stranger and we tend to believe whatever we first hear about strangers.

West in Buffalo Bayou. Why don't they like that? "Because it casts reasonable doubt on David West's story! "It is unreasonable to believe that a woman was