Quotes About Skepticism

all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.

And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one may stumble into a snare now and then, but at least enjoy sunshine along the way, between falls. The other may never miss his footing, but seldom experience joy. Better find a way somewhere between!

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Era este hombre muy estirado y relamido, y la gente estirada y relamida suele vivir habitualmente en un mundo tan reducido que cualquier cosa violenta e inusitada les puede sacar brusca y completamente de él; por ello, esta clase de gente suele desconfiar instintivamente de todo lo que represente una cierta originalidad.

I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to any more. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful. I

The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoarding for what they are knows it.

The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoardings for what they are knows it.

I'm tired of the news...I'm tired of anger. I'm tired of the meanness. I'm tired of selfishness...I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to anymore. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful.

I don't believe something.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt."-Alison Croggon

Beware of men who can string words together like pearls.

once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing--they begin to believe in anything.

for the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.

They [students] learned to doubt beliefs even before they believed in anything.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Trust was now a four-letter word.

You cannot con an honest man.

Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.

But on the upside, I guess we're getting ready to find out if you really only love me for my jet." "I might love you for your jet," Gabrielle said, straight-faced. He smiled a Kat. "What about you?" "Yeah," Kat said, nodding. "I guess that is the question.

She reminds me of…me." "Then clearly she can't be trusted.

Taccone smiled. "And you've come here alone," he said, but it was really a question. "Now, I could say yes, and have you think I'm lying." She took a step forward, ran her hand across the baby-soft leather of a wingback chair. "Or I could say no, and have you think I'm bluffing. So maybe I'll just say . . . no comment.