Quotes About Skepticism

He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Pigs might fly, but they're unlikely birds.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Politics is applesauce.

I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.

Och Karel, eigenlijk ben je zo goed. Soms wil je alleen het slechtste, het allerslechtste in de mensen zien, maar je meent het niet. Altijd beweer je dat liefde maar onzin is, dat haat en eigenbelang de enige dingen zijn die tussen de mensen blijven op den duur. Eigenlijk houd je veel te veel van mij.

Coolidge, in those days and always, distrusted reformers.

As it was, getting out of the car that night Coolidge said to Jager: "It's wonderful to ride in a horseless wagon." Then a pause: "But it won't amount to much!

Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.

when someone says he wants to be perfectly straightforward with us, we should be on the lookout for a concealed dagger.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.If the sun and moon should doubtThey'd immediately go out.

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

One thing the young were sure of; they would never again place their fate in the hands of an older generation.

You can never trust what you read.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Under all this lies the familiar logical fallacy, never expressed, but really the point of the whole, that we shall get perfect happiness if we put ourselves in the hands of the world-reformer. We

That means adopting "a mindset of falsification," always striving to "disprove" your hypothesis, and seeing "if it stands up to the assault." One of Shubin Stein's favorite questions is, "Why might I be wrong?