Quotes About Skepticism

Who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren't they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then – to win the approval of lunatics

If you are praised by others, be skeptical of yourself. For it is no easy feat to hold onto your inner harmony while collecting accolades.

If you are praised by others, be skeptical of yourself. For it is no easy feat to hold onto your inner harmony while collecting accolades. When grasping for one, you are likely to drop the other.

Do not trust the Afghans. Do not trust your friends. Do not trust anyone except your enemies.

Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.

Jeff: I could go to New York if I wanted to, but what's the point? So I can learn how to order a capuccino? So I can get mugged by some crackhead? So I can see homeless people up close and personal? Sooze: So what do you want to do? Jeff: Nothing. Sooze: No one does nothing, Jeff! Jeff: Okay, well, then I'm going to break new ground. Sooze: New ground?! Jeff: Mm-hmm. Sooze: Taking one community college course on the history of Nicaragua while barely holding a job packing boxes?

Jeff: Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation. He's about to quit his job.

Chi è deluso da Dio è deluso dagli uomini. Chi reclama un Dio onnipotente sogna uomini senza libertà.

Dostarczenie dowodu nale?y do tego, kto wysuwa twierdzenie. JeÅ›li utrzymujÄ™, ?e centaury istniejÄ…, muszÄ™ poprze? swojÄ… tezÄ™. - KtoÅ›, kto nie chce wierzy?, zawsze wynajduje powody. - KtoÅ›, kto chce wierzy?, równie?!

Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty.

I'd be a fool to trust him completely. He was who he was, after all. A scorpion with a treacherous nature." Excerpt From: The Sinner

Lyse, I'm a witch." "Are you high?" It was out of her mouth before Lyse could stop herself. Eleanora raised one pale silver eyebrow. "As a matter of fact, I am.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.