Quotes About Skeptic

What?' Cramer's eyes widened. 'Where the hell does Shepherd come in?' 'I don't know. Archie doesn't like him, and I have learned that it is always quite possible that anyone he doesn't like may be a murderer.

His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

And blanket skepticism can lead one as far astray as blanket credibility can.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization

If somebody comes on TV and says everything is great and wonderful, you don't believe it, you say they're blowing smoke up your butt. You demand proof. But if one second later, some guy comes on and says everything is falling apart, you automatically believe it, no questions asked.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Don't believe a single thing any cunt or bastard tells you in this world. You go find out.

Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.

I don't read too much into things and look at social media. It's all a load of crap.

Boss, there ain't no such animal as a well-documented conspiracy.

We have already explained that, of course — even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Besides, it was only coincidence. (Remember that phrase. It is the self-hypnotic chant by which the New Inquisition banishes all evidence it does not like. We will hear it often.)

My basic attitude has always been that the greatest drug any chemist could possibly invent would be an anti-gullibility pill, to cure humanity of its addiction to faith and dogma.

Some people (Roman Catholics, New Agers, heretical holistic physicians, etc.) will eagerly believe this yarn. Other people (the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the American Medical Association, old-fangled Village Atheists etc.) just as eagerly wish not to believe it at all, at all.

Stemms sniffed the air loudly, like a dog catching a scent. "I'm smelling bullshit." Harvey spoke again, voice mellow and calm, like a jazz man at two in the morning. "Relax, Jesse. What does she look like? Describe her.

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.

Uh-huh," she said. He was beginning to recognize that was her way of indicating untruth.

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.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.