Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

I'm a natural born skeptic.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

Authority is never without hate.

I take everything with a grain of salt.

I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

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

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Trust me: not everyone is on the Adriane Lenox bandwagon. I'm not stupid enough to think that.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.