Quotes About Skeptic

The bullshit detector is the biggest enemyof every religion."From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"('Scourges of an imaginary god')

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

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

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.

I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

How much he could believe of it, he did not know; for he did not know the man, and he had learned to suspect that every civilized man was a liar and a cheat until he had proved himself otherwise.

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

'Ghost Hunters,' they like to go out and disprove everything and just wave a bunch of equipment around for a couple hours.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

When you're bringing an idea to fruition, there are two distinct phases: the skeptic phase and the evangelist phase. During the first phase, you have to be willing to ask the hardest questions - is this idea worth pursuing? But once you are convinced, you flip a switch. It's about getting it done.

I have a basic rule of thumb that about 2 percent of any large group will believe literally anything, no matter how preposterous it seems to the rest of us.

If you collected all the good faith in this room right now you might fill a teaspoon.