Quotes About Skepticism

What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

Skepticism as propounded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.) and by Timon, Sextus Empiricus said that those who seek must find or deny they have found or can find, or persevere in the inquiry.

Those who suppose they have found truth are called Dogmatists; those who think it incomprehensible are the Academics; those who still seek are the Skeptics

Intelligence is built on deception. Trust nothing. Not even the mirror.

only 3 per cent believed that governments worked to improve their lives.

Non ho mai conosciuto una persona intelligente che amasse per davvero o avesse fiducia nel prossimo. Al massimo ha provato compassione.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

I think that Françoise disbelieved me, for, like those primitive men whose senses were so much keener than our own, she could immediately detect, by signs imperceptible by the rest of us, the truth or falsehood of anything that we might wish to conceal from her.

Madness is a distrust of reason.

Theologian Lesslie Newbigin writes that we live in an age that favors doubt over faith.4 We often speak of "blind faith" and "honest doubt.

Never believe governments,' she wrote, 'not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

but you can't ever be sure about a white man, and if you've got one that believes in virgin births, risin' from the dead, and God punishin' two nekkid people for wantn an education, you need to watch his ass ever' minute of the day.

Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I have indicated, he thinks that people more or less naturally agree in their moral judgments and count the same qualities of character as virtues and vices; it is rather the enthusiasms of religion and superstition that lead to differences, not to mention the corruptions of political power.

trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will.

I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

So what killed him? Virgil asked. I'm thinking aliens. You mean like, Canadians?

She thought Trump was going to be reinstated as President as soon as Biden was convicted of child molestation.

When it comes to being around women, I wouldn't trust that guy further than I could spit a Norwegian rat," Lucas had grumbled.

Having some guy shine his flashlight up my asshole isn't gonna improve my addition," he said.

I'm talking to a guy who says he was taken up in a flying saucer and had sexual experiments done on him - which, I got to say, is probably the only sexual experiments he's ever had done on him, that didn't involve a heifer.

truth, that he wasn't involved in the murder, but Virgil wasn't yet ready to label him nope. After a moment, Virgil said, "I'm going to hold you to that. Don't mess with Justin.

I know. I'll tell you what, when you spend your life doing investigations, you become wary of coincidences. Because they happen. It's possible that there was a dirty trick, followed by two killings, at a critical moment in a political campaign, and it's all purely a coincidence that the person who most benefits had two killers standing around. I personally am not ready to believe that.

Sorensen asked, "And you believe all of them?" "I don't really believe any of them," Lucas said. "I can't afford to—but I think all but one are telling the truth. I just don't know who that one is.

But define 'completely ridiculous shit,' Duvall said. Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.