Quotes About Skeptic

Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He

To disbelieve is easy

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

My father told me the only thing you can trust in this world is yourself, so I didn't trust!

Of course," Lobo said. "It's not like this is my first dance, and it's not as if you've cornered the market on paranoia.

As the explanation wound on, Eck began to get a whiff of the unmistakable scent of bullshit.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, that's what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Los escépticos y los cautos son minoría.

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

I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My only ally is the tagged dissolute. The tagged dissolute. That is the only cross on which I wish to be crucified. Though ten thousand people criticize me, I can throw in their teeth my challenge: Are you not all the more dangerous for being without tags?

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

A vampire?" MacAullif said. There is no way I can do justice to the skepticism, sarcasm, and mistrust with which MacAullif managed to imbue the word. "That's right." "You want me to find a vampire?" "I'd be relieved if you could. I'm afraid he might be dead.

Francia don't look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism,

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

I had never heard such bullshit in my life. I opened my mouth and said, "I have never heard such bullshit in my life.

Because anything that has to use the Cat to make it work can't be right. It just can't.

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.