Quotes About Skeptic

Los que tienen algo que vender, los que desean influir en la opinión pública, los que mandan, podría sugerir un escéptico, tienen un interés personal en no fomentar el escepticismo.

the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.

That doesn't sound very reliable to me, said the druid nastily. How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count.

So computers are tools of the devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him.

Do not believe too quickly!

I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything.

in this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness

1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look. 6) Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand. 7) Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

I've never met a skeptic of VR who has tried it.

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

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

For a person who walks in people's dreams, who has conversed with gods and ghosts, you are an insufferable sceptic, Rayojini.

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.

The bookseller handed me the book and winked. Have a good look at it, little dumpling. I don't want you coming back to me saying I've switched it, eh? I trust you, I said. Stuff and nonsense. The last guy who said that to me (a tourist who was convinced that Hemingway had invented the fabada stew during the San Fermín bull run) bought a copy of Hamlet signed by Shakespeare in ballpoint, imagine that. So keep your eyes peeled. In the book business, you can't even trust the index.

My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.

Seto Kaiba [to Ishizu]: How do I know you didn't just make this slab a few days ago?! There's no proof it's 3,000 years old! Even carbon dating doesn't work perfectly on rocks!

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.