Healthy Skepticism Quotes

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

Incredulity is not wisdom.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Distrust interested advice.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.