Quotes About Skeptic

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.

It's a useful habit never to believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

For postmoderns, no knowledge is fully reliable and no concepts are absolutely indispensable.

You can't believe everything you read.

being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.

When confronting a claim about the distant past or a statement about what happened yesterday, students—indeed, all Americans—need to develop informed skepticism, not nihilistic cynicism.

A poca gente quiero de verdad, y de muy pocos tengo buen concepto. Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me desagrada, y el tiempo me confirma mi creencia en la inconsistencia del carácter humano y en lo poco que se puede uno fiar de las apariencias de bondad o inteligencia.

It's not so much that I am a cynic, I just might take a bit too much pleasure in demonstrating why things aren't as rosy as they seem.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

your skepticism is one of your greatest strengths as an academic. It is also your greatest weakness. I know you well enough to know you're not a man I can ask to believe . . . only to trust.

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

Trust No One.

Carl Sagan put it best: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Most grandiose gestures are suspect—the couple who renew their vows just before divorce or the politician who publicly swears he's clean, then enters rehab.

Mr. Grote doesn't believe in government telling him what to do. Tell the truth, he doesn't believe in government at all. He has never been to school a day in his life and doesn't see the point. But he'll send me to school if that's what it takes to keep the authorities out of his hair.

You're wasting your time," he said. "You don't learn how to discover things by reading books on it. And psychology is a bunch of bullshit.

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

The words 'mainly in America' translated to me as 'this is bollocks' and I sat back in my chair with a sigh.

I am highly skeptical of any trend that large corporations participate in.

We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.

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