Quotes About Skepticism

It is a fool who believes politicians will end the problems and poverty they have created in the first place. 

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. —EGON FRIEDELL,

Onlookers who fell for Bukharin's big moment would fall for anything.

My friends, there are no friends.

Je me demande, entre parenthèses, pour qui vous la gardez? Pour un employé à deux mille quatre qui l'épousera et qui lui fera quatre enfants en trois ans?

There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.

He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In

In essence our failure was a vivid demonstration, which I have never forgotten, that theories, however plausible and "obviously" valid, can be destroyed totally by the obstinate facts of the real world. Davis had brought us an unbeatable scheme for raising cattle profitably. The cattle had a different scheme. No doubt my later deep skepticism of the a priorism of mainstream economics had some of its origins in this experience.

Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

Ka disa pseudoepoka paqeje, gjate te cilave edhe veprimet me te mira na duken te dyshimta dhe na ngjallin nje mosbesim te fshehte, ku edhe vete meshira na duket si shtazeri. Nga ana tjeter, ka periudha gjate te cilave imoraliteti i paskrupullt, gabimet, padrejtesite, vesi dhe krimi formojne sfondin e nje tabele sublime, ngazellyese, dhe sherbejne vetem per t'i dhene asaj nje vule vertetesie. Sa me te erreta jane njollat, aq me te ndritshme duken vendet e ndricuara.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

The Romanian farmers eat and drink too much because they have too little, said Liviu, and they talk too little because they know too much. And they don't trust strangers don't have any gold teeth. Strangers here are very much alone, said Liviu.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

How do you know he's a friend? There might be a number of people looking for me." The creases around her eyes deepened. "I figure he's a friend, 'cause every now and then he calls,'Answer me, you stubborn son-of-a-bitch.

Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.

Or a pigeon, or a rat, or . . . I always double-check the leash.

They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.