Quotes About Skepticism

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Who can refute a sneer?

They Said, "what sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" - John 6: 30 - 31 You do not believe although you have seen... - John 6: 36 - 37

They said, "What sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe." —John 6:30–31 "You do not believe although you have seen." —John 6:36–37

Sharon shook her head. "He's never come here," she said. "And besides, he was in Boston that night at some convention." "He's a salesman?" asked Kinderman. "A lawyer.

And blanket skepticism can lead one as far astray as blanket credibility can.

Fish not, with this melancholy bait,For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.

How like a fawning publican he looks!I hate him for he is a Christian.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

There's no artTo find the mind's construction in the face:He was a gentleman on whom I builtAn absolute trust.

They say miracles are past.

And to be kingStands not within the prospect of belief.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

People are no damn good.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

Gyerekfejjel Joan meg én külön világot teremtettünk magunknak, szembeszegülve azzal, amit most feln?ttként lelki szegénységnek nevezek. A lelki szegények szüntelen gyanakvással tekintenek mindenre, ami eltér az átlagtól, ismeretlen vagy nem általánosan elfogadott; azontúl minden, ami nem jár gyakorlati haszonnal, ugyancsak elvetend? a szemükben.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

Never trust a man who doesn't drink.

nothing on earth is lovable or trustworthy.