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Quotes about Skepticism

Are all men bad? Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.
- Oscar Wilde
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.
- Oscar Wilde
Your cynicism is simply a pose.
- Oscar Wilde
But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy
- Oscar Wilde
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
- Oscar Wilde
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
- William Faulkner
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
- William James
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps no word is more overworked nowadays than the word "democracy," and those who shout loudest about it, I think, as a rule, want it least. I am always suspicious of men who speak glibly of democracy.
- Henry Ford
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
- Euripides