Quotes About Skeptic

You must believe everything and nothing of what you read.

The High King makes a nonchalant gesture. 'Jude likes to suppose the worst of both her enemies and her allies. Her reward is occasionally being wrong about us.' 'Hard to remember an occasion of that,' I say to him under my breath. He lifts a single brow.

Remember your ABC?" he'd ask, so often it got irritating. "Accept nothing. Believe nothing. Check everything," Christina would answer.

Accept nothing. Believe nothing. Check everything,

One said, "Nobody paused in front of the house since we've been here." I slipped my ID case away. "Any out-of-state tags?" "Didn't notice any." Different answer from "No." One

Accept nothing, Believe no one, Challenge everything. It's the only law I live by.

Show me one who isn't

Accept nothing, believe no one, and challenge everything

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

Carlin (George) 'I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the Government tells me. Nothing. Zero.

conspiracy practitioners.

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

Indeed, given the facts, the burden of proof is not to prove that Washington was a Christian; the burden of proof is to prove that he was a skeptic who nevertheless sought to act like a Christian believer!

David Hume, the great­est skep­tic of them all, once remarked that after a gath­er­ing of skep­tics met to pro­claim the verac­i­ty of skep­ti­cism as a phi­los­o­phy, all of the mem­bers of the gath­er­ing nonethe­less left by the door rather than the win­dow. I see Hume's point. It was all just talk. The solemn philoso­phers weren't tak­ing what they said seri­ous­ly.

Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.

No," I corrected her, "I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope. I hate everyone equally.

If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.

To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world, and never the return. As only the unreal is not ignoble and empty, existence must be admitted to be abominable. Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectness of life.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

Members of Congress concerned about human rights in Vietnam are right to maintain a healthy skepticism about its government's intentions.

El alma es la suma de las cosas que uno ha vivido antes de hacerse un canalla escéptico" La flaqueza del bolchevique, capítulo XI

God save me from idealists.

Mort looked at the cat and sighed. "Oh, sure. Professional ectomancer with a national reputation as a medium tells you what's going on, and nobody believes him. But let a stump-tailed, furry critter come in and everyone goes all Lifetime." "Heh," said Sir Stuart, quietly amused. "What did I tell you? Cats.