Quotes About Skepticism

Doubt is not within me. It is all around me.

Those closest to you can be your greatest enemies.

Je me suis trompé jusqu'ici; en voilà un qui est plus méchant. »

S]he hardly deserved to be labeled a witch.' 'I find it hard to believe anyone could take such a thing seriously. This isn't the Dark Ages.' 'All ages are dark, Hayden,' Grey said gently.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid. ("New York Blues")

Maga nije bila kadra vjerovati u imena, morala je stvar dotaknuti prstom i tek bi je tada prihva?ala.

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

His face had gotten so fat his eyes were little bloodshot dots of mistrust.

That is the difference between us—I believe in everything until proven, whereas you believe in nothing until proven." I

Like some strange little religion all its own, the one thing that makes the whole system work is the one thing that it robs you of - faith.

Yet he worked unceasingly, amassing a considerable fortune in the process, at turning clients who were indubitably criminals loose upon society. He always assumed that the words from a witness' mouth were perjury, unless he had put them there himself. He expected his friends eventually to double-cross him, and was neither surprised nor hurt when they occasionally did. Yet this did not interfere in the least with his very sincere liking for them.

people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard. So if you say it like you really mean it to be true, then you're away.

People say things all the time with the best of intentions but it's so easy not believe the words that come out of your own mouth.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.

Therefore, you are the one that I am going to protect. And letting you run into the spooky boat storage building? Sorry, but I saw that Scooby Doo episode.

You might think you can trust someone, but you can't. People lie. They deceive.

I've always been wary of marriage.

I haven't got the goddamnedest idea of what the hell you're talking about. Kierkeguard, what's that? Sounds like deodorant, which is to say that the whole thing smells as far as I'm concerned.

He knew from the first that this man would know how to hurt him.

Obviously not," said Pettigrew, beginning to feel like a participant in one of Plato's dialogues when Socrates really got going.

Sono gli impiegati che inventano, in fin dei conti, tutte queste scartoffie [i passaporti] per avvelenare la vita agli uomini, e le loro disposizioni non vanno prese troppo sul serio.

Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve the problems of production and division of goods.