Quotes About Skeptic

I have no way of knowing that it's not just some kind of feel-good hoax set up to make customers think the vendor cares while they actually discard the submissions.

When I hear someone touting the cloud as a magic-bullet for all computing problems, I silently replace "cloud" with "clown" and carry on with a zen-like smile.

I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit

Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Only believe half you see and nothing you hear or read Laurence Elliott

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense.

It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it.

Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.

Pessimists — Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually gives me a good advantage.

Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

What do you think I am, some kind of idiot?" Attention! Do not answer that question! I repeat, do NOT answer that question!

I'd rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.

When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.

We therefore should be more skeptical than we seem to be about evidence presented to us secondhand. We should become accustomed to asking ourselves where the information originated, and how much distortion—deliberate or otherwise—is likely to have been introduced along the way.

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

My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

I don't believe in the world, not in money, nor in advancement, nor in the future of our civilization.

I think my blunt and contrary nature helps my science, because I don't simply accept things just because other people believe it