Quotes About Skepticism

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.

Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

False hope really makes you cynical.

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.