Quotes About Skeptic

I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

If you're such a genius, you wouldn't believe in magic." "If you weren't such an old coot, you wouldn't need it.

ABC I taught you when dealing with the Romans. A: accept nothing; B: believe nobody; C: check everything.

He can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there's no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he's ungrateful by nature.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

You'd trust me that easily? (Shahara) Hell no. The only thing I trust in life is to get fucked over by everyone around me. (Syn)

Yeah, right. I don't believe that one for a minute. What do you think? I fell off a turnip truck? (Simone) Honestly? All I was thinking about was how beautiful you are. How much I wanted to feel your skin against mine and how I've never been this attracted to a woman before. (Xypher)

As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full moon can turn dude into a wolf.

You ever hear somebody blithely say something so amazingly plastered over with bullshit it just makes your eyes bug?

The Pseudo-Dionysius begins with a seeming paradox. We see God nowhere, and yet God is everywhere. The skeptic and atheist get stuck at the first obvious truth; they fail to push on to the second. The secret is that God's presence is made visible to us not directly but symbolically, in a material world that bears the faint but still perceptible trace of a higher intelligible and spiritual realm.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

Humbug!...Humbug!...Humbug!...

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. Very

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

Als het tenminste waar is wat je me vertelt. Want weet je, hoe vervelend ik het ook vind, je hebt me al zoveel verhaaltjes op de mouw gespeld dat het me moeilijk valt er ook maar iets van te geloven.

Beware of men with theories that explain everything.

I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized"—courtesy of Alair Townsend

I don't believe the 'Evening Pulpit' can prove it, — and I'm sure that they can't attempt to prove it without an expense of three or four thousand pounds. That's a game in which nobody wins but the lawyers. I wonder

Don't believe anything I've told you—merely because I said it.

When this book was written in the early 1950s, I was still quite impressed by the evidence for what is generally called the paranormal, and used it as a main theme of the story. Four decades later, after spending some millions of dollars of Yorkshire Television's money researching my Mysterious World and Strange Powers programmes, I am an almost total skeptic. I have seen far too many claims dissolve into thin air, far too many demonstrations exposed as fakes.