Quotes About Skepticism

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Assume nothing, question everything, open your eyes, challenge the opposition, and start thinking.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

If something seems too good to be true it's probably because God is involved in it somehow.

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.

Every paranoid person is right at least once, said the tall sergeant. When he dies.

Disarming an idealist was easy

I'm a loser for believing in all the promises your America made to people like me. You came and said we were friends, but what we didn't know was that you could never trust us, much less respect us. Only losers like us couldn't have seen what's so obvious now, how you wouldn't want anyone for your friend who actually wanted to be your friend. Deep down you suspect only fools and traitors would believe your promises.

A person who is always nice is not always nice.

Be just to all, but trust not all.

Beware of a naked person who promises to buy you clothes.

Beware of a wicked man who is trying to be generous.