Quotes about Skepticism
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
one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.
— Graham Greene
But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world
— Mortimer Adler
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
— Thomas Jefferson
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
— Thomas Jefferson
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
— CS Lewis