Quotes About Skepticism

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

é difícil pormos em dúvida aquilo que sabemos desde a infância, tardamos em desconfiar disso.

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.

I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.

They're crooked as corkscrews, the lot of them!

Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.

One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.

On se moque des diseurs de bonne aventure. Il faut sinon se moquer, en tout cas se méfier des bâtisseurs d'avenir. Surtout quand pour bâtir l'avenir des hommes à naître, ils ont besoin de faire mourir les hommes vivants. L'homme n'est la matière première que de sa propre vie. Je refuse d'obéir.

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

general public distrusts academic expertise as soon as it affects real-world topics

There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.

What sort of men?" "They don't believe in God, but they have just as much faith in humanity as we do.

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

People declare as much, without, apparently, looking into the matter very closely. They seem able to dispense with the conscientious observer's scruples, when inflating their bladder of theory.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,"—"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.