Quotes About Skeptic

We need to get back to our ABCs. Accept nothing. Believe nobody. Check everything.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.

Anyone pointing out pitfalls or difficulties is scaremongering. Experts don't know anything. Facts lie.

Credulity is not a virtue, and investigation is not a crime.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.

They're shrinks. You said so yourself. They overcomplicate things. If you hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

It's good to be cynical, he said. That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.

Point the biggest skeptic out, Ill make him a believer.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Wrote a skeptical E. B. White: "Although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.")

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

She knew few words and believed in none.

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

No one is going to abduct me, Rae. That's what all abductees say.

En général, on ne demande de conseils, disait-il, que pour ne les pas suivre; ou, si on les a suivis, que pour avoir quelqu'un à qui l'on puisse faire le reproche de les avoir donnés.»

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist , n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.