Quotes About Skepticism

My best friend, a liar. My society brothers, my lover, and now my best friend. Any second now, my parents would call and tell me they were actually space aliens. Or European royalty. Or Republicans.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

My husband said to me while I was swooning in his arms, 'Why are all the longest dances the draggiest?' I took this to mean that he has not loved me for a very long time. Everything means something, or it does not. I have expressed an opinion. Every effect has a source that is not unfamiliar. It's all so evil. ("The Uncanny")

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

one should never assume anything

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

I buy about $1 500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Wir glauben nur das, was wir sehen. Darum glauben wir alles, seit es das Fernsehen gibt.

Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

It's the look you give a well-behaved imbecile, an insurance policy against cosmic malevolence.

Call me cynical, but I have difficulty putting much stock in Christianity, when the entirety of the religion was built upon believing an unmarried fifteen-year-old girl's explanation for how she got pregnant.

Capuchin monkeys have no faith in America; they hold to no dream

I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they dont know what theyre talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, I wish I knew as little about it as he does.

You're too cheap. You'd make me nervous to work for you. I'd come to you for a gun, you wouldn't want to give me more than one bullet.

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

When you act like a nice guy, everyone examines your motives with a microscope. When you act like a conscienceless louse, they generally take you at face value.

I believe in doubt. I believe in keeping clear of believers.

You'll fly like a stone kite," said Encyclopedia. "Nope, it's going to work," said Casper. "Buck Barkdull has flown—" "Nobody can fly!" screamed Encyclopedia. "Jump off the roof and you'll find out what an anchor does.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.