Quotes About Skeptic

I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn't believe me.

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.

The other dragged at his mustache bitterly. "He's a skeptic," was the bitter response. "He doesn't believe we made him or that Earth exists or space or stars." "Sizzling Saturn, we've got a lunatic robot on our hands.

There are moments of faith, interspersed with times when the smoke & flames of burning children blot out our faith... although it flickers again. The difference between the skeptic & the believer is the frequency of faith and not the certitude of one's position.

prefería entenderse con Dios sin intermediarios, tenía profunda desconfianza de las sotanas y se aburría con las descripciones del cielo, el purgatorio y el infierno

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver

the benefits promised in the book seem grossly overstated.

not to be swayed by well-sounding remarks. I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

It has been difficult for people to understand that, historically, skepticism has been mostly skepticism of expert knowledge rather than skepticism about abstract entities like God, and that all the great skeptics have been largely either religious or, at least, pro-religion (that is, in favour of others being religious).

Faith is all right for those who have it. Just don't load it on me. I have more faith in my plumber than I do in the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing.

people who believe in politics are like people who believe in god: they are sucking wind through bent straws. there

If I bet on Humanity I'd never cash a ticket.

Him? Make the trip twice? I might have believed it if I'd seen it, but I didn't, so I won't.

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.

You should demand extraordinary evidence in order to believe extraordinary claims.

Yeah right. I'll believe you, thousands wouldn't. Want to borrow my mirror?

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.