Quotes About Skepticism

You must believe everything and nothing of what you read.

I can pity you, without entirely believing you.

Do you know why they say, 'There's no smoke without fire?' It's not just to give encouragement to people who like fires.

MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don't believe in luck. Good or bad.

But I do not think the flying machine will ever be used for ordinary traffic and for what may be called "popular" purposes. People who write about the conditions under which the business and pleasure of the world will be carried on in another hundred years generally make flying machines take the place of railways and steamers, but that such will ever be the case I very much doubt.

My reaction was that the Yankees had outdone themselves this time. I wondered how on earth they had obtained the photographs. That there was something fishy about the whole thing was beyond doubt, but I could not figure out exactly how the trick had been carried out.

She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It's not like you're actually currently betraying him.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?

You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that.

Even without liars, there can still be lies.

The most infuriating part was that she didn't have to mean it. She was mortal. She could lie. So why wouldn't she?

The High King makes a nonchalant gesture. 'Jude likes to suppose the worst of both her enemies and her allies. Her reward is occasionally being wrong about us.' 'Hard to remember an occasion of that,' I say to him under my breath. He lifts a single brow.

his kindness was jarring and made me wonder what he wanted in return for it. I was used to tricks, to games.

God and I weren't on speaking terms. Still, no bars for me on Sundays.

There is no more trusting in women.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.

People who love don't doubt in anything, or doubt in everything.

Quelque mal que l'on te dise du monde, crois?le ! il n'y a pas de Juvénal qui puisse en peindre l'horreur couverte d'or et de pierreries.