Quotes About Skepticism

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe