50 Quotes About Scepticism

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.

It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step of their boasted science confuted.

Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Traditions and dogmas rub one another down to a minimum in such centers of varied intercourse; where there are a thousand faiths we are apt to become sceptical of them all.