Quotes About Skepticism

even Herodotos suspected that he was being made fun of.

The British are entitled always to mistrust other people but others are not entitled to mistrust the British. That is why England is known or was known abroad as 'Perfide Albion', because the British have two standards, one for themselves and one for other people.

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something." "I don't have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

There is a saying, drawn from the ages of Old Earth and written by a council of Ancient Merican kings, that all men were created equal. I'd often wondered if the words sounded as false and idealistic to those men's ears as they did to mine. Truly, humanity has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Gideon resisted a strange urge to laugh. Looks like homicide. What did he think—that a heart attack had blown away half the man's head?

We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born

It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

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

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

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

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.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI or orthopedic consult.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

By the time they return to the lodge in the late afternoon, they've seen so many white men—sa'ippus—and even white women, that Baby Mol no longer wants to touch them to see if the color comes off.

Darling Cockroaches of the Highest Order, hard underthings of hard underworlds, I am utterly suspicious of advice.

Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Generally, readers of the Press can be classified into three groups: First, those who believe everything they read; Second, those who no longer believe anything; Third, those who critically examine what they read and form their judgments accordingly.