Quotes About Skepticism

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

What did he do to you?" I asked her, ignoring the darkening of the bear's looming face. "Nothing," she declared, enunciating distinctly. "Do you think every man wants to get me in his bed?" "Every man who's not dead already—or gelded.

Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again.

Quit it," Kitty warns. "We're not getting a cat. Cats are blah. They're also very manipulative

Hmm" is all Margot says, and the skeptical look on her face makes me want to x her right off the screen.

What if he's a serial killer or a child molester? I don't want to be alone with a strange man.

Josh gives me a dubious look.

Believe none of what you hear. Half of what you see. And everything you write.

I hate snails. I don't trust them. Pulling their house on their back. Walking around, "Nothing can harm me, I've got my house on my back." Crunch. "Where did that foot come from? Bastard broke my house. I don't have insurance for that."

Conspiracy contagion thrived on possibility and coincidence as vectors.

He cut himself off and looked away, dragging a hand through his hair. "I just met her," he muttered to himself. "I'll no' say that ." "Cut the crap," Megan said. "Zachary Moore, this is Aura Salvatore, and yes, she's into science even though she's pretty. Shocker. Get over it." She turned to me. "Show him how you can walk and chew gum at the same time.

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.