Quotes About Skepticism

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician—but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

We believe what we see.'...What do you do when you're in the dark?

A healthy skepticism about all causation is wisest for both traditional and alternative approaches.

and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase at the end of the day--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt—something is gained but something is lost.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling sea-water to retrieve the salt – something is gained but something is lost. Though

If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.

Audrey nodded warily. She had never cared for conspiratorial female conversation of this sort. Its assumption of shared preoccupations was usually unfounded in her experience, its intimacies almost always the trapdoor to some subterranean hostility.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

My agent said 'you've got clubs looking at you and United are one,' and I said: 'no they're not!'

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

I know enough about the business to look after myself now. I don't trust anyone else to take care of business.

The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.

Chesnel was clear-sighted so long as Victurnien was not there before him. One by one he lost the illusions which the Marquis and his sister still fondly cherished. He saw that the young fellow could not be depended upon in the least, and wished to see him married to some modest, sensible girl of good birth, wondering within himself how a young man could mean so well and do so ill, for he made promises one day only to break them all on the next.

Je ne sais pas ce que je ferai au premier fanatique qui a inventé Dieu.

Quand on connaît Paris, on ne croit à rien de ce qui s'y dit, et on ne dit rien de ce qui s'y fait.

Kendi kendine ?i?inen, gelece?e biraz erken inanm?? bir-iki yaygarac?y? da yaln?z aptallar adam yerine koyar.

Paris is a queer place," said Lucien; it seemed to him that he saw self-interest squatting in every corner.

The old man replied, gravely: "The police, my dear boy, is the most incompetent thing on this earth, and government the feeblest in all matters concerning individuals. Neither the police nor the government can read hearts.