Quotes About Skepticism

Quando a rainha Adelaide consultou um homeopata, Guilherme IV ordenou ao médico real, Robert Keate (1777-1857): "Examine a receita que ele der a ela para ver se a rainha pode tomar sem perigo." Eu prometi fazer isso, e quando recebi a receita, eu disse: "Ah, majestade, ela pode tomar durante sete anos que, no fim desse tempo, não terá tomado nem uma grama de medicamento".

People seemed uniquely printed to believe in plots and conspiracies, miracles and demons.

Maybe the fact that nobody believes in magic and wood sprites and happiness is the problem of the day. [Ludi]

If you will only ask yourself, "Is what I am being told really true?," it is amazing how much you can find is, or borders on, being false, even in a well-developed field!

The Buddha told his disciples, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." I say the same to you—you must assume the responsibility for what you believe.

The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him.

The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him." Thank you, Dr. Van Helsing, he thought, putting down his copy of Dracula.

He can't figure out why people do what they do. His cluelessness only makes others keener to dupe him.

some people around the Institute were skeptical of her ability to work in a space suit in Level 4. She was a "married female"—and therefore, they claimed, she might panic. They claimed that her hands looked nervous or clumsy, not good for work with Level 4 hot agents. People felt that she might cut herself or stick herself with a contaminated needle—or stick someone else. Her hands became a safety issue. But the real issue was that she was a woman.

If our postmodern world seems highly subject to cynicism, skepticism, and what it does not believe in, if we now live in a post-truth America, then we "believers" must take at least partial responsibility for aiming our culture in this sad direction. The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better.

The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the sufferings of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from I knew that to LIAR! to Yeah right, and I'm Zeus. - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'.

That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say "tell the truth," and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.

Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)

Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron

Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

We're fine.' A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say tell the truth, and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point? - Sadie Carter (Red Pyramid)

Angus had a pretty normal childhood. Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood.