Quotes About Skeptic

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.

I'm really wary of self-help books.

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.

The thin man had a tight voice that expected to be lied to. (The King in Yellow)

I always doubt people... I've survived by not believing in other human beings.

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

The temerity to believe in nothing.

Are you sure I can't catch it? (Nick) I'm positive. Believe me, I know my zombies. (Bubba) (Nick scoffed.) 'Is it just me or is that like saying I know my elves and fairies?' (Nick)

I looked at the jury, raised an eyebrow. I work on that in the mirror at home, the one raised eyebrow. It should be a course of its own in law school. You sort of have to relax one half of your face, contract the muscles on the other, all while keeping a sweetly sardonic expression. You do it wrong, you look like you just ate bad jalapeño. You do it right, it denotes skepticism, it denotes shared knowledge, it was as good as shouting to the jury.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

Scepticism may be theoretically irrefutable, but even the sceptic must 'act … and live, and converse, like other men', since human nature gives him no choice.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense.

I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.

God save me from idealists.