Human Skepticism Quotes

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.