Quotes about Skepticism

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Understanding the role of God's protection will not help us very much if we don't first understand exactly why we need it. If your eyes are not yet open to the behind-the-scenes context of our new life in Christ—if you are still skeptical about the whole business—prepare to be jolted by the reality of the conflict raging around you.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?

If I were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism, or anarchistic quietistic pessimism or pessimistic quietistic anarchism: anarchism because experience tells me that what is wrong with politics is power itself; quietism because I have my doubts about the will to set about changing the world, a will infected with the drive to power; and pessimism because I am sceptical that, in a fundamental way, things can be changed.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.