Quotes About Skeptic

I mistrust mountebanks—especially of the female variety.

I never believed in the institution of marriage, because ever since I was young, I had only seen marriages fall apart, or remain stuck in a rut.

Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.

The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching. Thus is born a multitude of contradictions. Now he appears an Epicurean, now a Stoic, now a sceptic.

Really, Joe? Really? You freaking think so?

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

bullshit sniffer set as ever to a brutally low ppm.

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.

For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or a climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. We see that throughout history. We impact the climate by our activity. How much so is very difficult to determine with respect to our CO2 or carbon footprint, but we obviously do.

I am incredibly cynical, and I don't think that's something people would guess. People think I'm all positive, but I'm a skeptic.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I question a lot.

I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.