Quotes About Skepticism

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

en el fondo del abismo se encuentran la desesperación sentimental y volitiva y el escepticismo ra cional frente a frente, y se abrazan como hermanos. Y

Ni el sentimiento logra hacer del consuelo verdad, ni la razón logra hacer de la verdad consuelo; pero esta segunda, la razón, procediendo sobre la verdad misma, sobre el concepto mismo de realidad, logra hundirse en un profundo escepticismo.

The mental framework that makes science enjoyable is accessible to everyone. It involves curiosity, careful observation, a disciplined way of recording events, and finding ways to tease out the underlying regularities in what one learns. It also requires the humility to be willing to learn from the results of past investigators, coupled with enough skepticism and openness of mind to reject beliefs that are not sup-ported by facts.

Los hombres revolotean alrededor de la mentira como las moscas alrededor de un panal de miel

Beware of the applicant waving cash. The odds are the cash they're waving under your nose belongs to their current landlord.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He's also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns.

If there's anything I hate is someone who questions my credit.

You shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet, especially from sites that can be edited by anyone with a working email address.

I'll take care of myself and my people. You think I'd trust my life to a bunch of politicians? The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care.

There's no such thing as a benevolent leader. ... Those communists don't care about you. They don't care about anybody.

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

Beware of subjects who are nobodies, Of whose plotting one is not aware. Trust not a brother, know not a friend. Make no intimates, it is worthless. When you lie down, guard your heart yourself.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

Only fools are positive.

Los escépticos y los cautos son minoría.

What! Just because a rascal boldly duped you With pompous show of false austerity, Must you needs have it everybody's like him, And no one's truly pious nowadays?

Je puis croire ces mots, un artifice honnête. Je ne me fierai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire, Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

Je ne me fîerai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire. Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

If someone tries to sell you something with a brain on it … ask to see the evidence. Ask for the part of the story that's not being told.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.