Quotes About Skepticism

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Happy isn't even a real idea, he said. It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means.

Beware of a man with manners.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.

HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

That's right! Run him down! Run down everybody! Everyone is a fake to you!

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

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

Don't let our skepticism turn into cynicism. Not everyone with a crazy story is crazy.

Often it's to suss you out and decide if you're hiding something and how you hide things.

Pay attention. If something sounds suspicious, ask questions. Don't ignore it just because everyone else does. Our tools give us capabilities the rest of the public can't even imagine. If we're not vigilant, something bad could happen, and we might find those capabilities taken from us. I make mistakes. You make mistakes. Don't run from them. Seek them out. Correct them. Listen when someone is telling you something is suspicious. Don't ignore it.

Hitler had done quite enough in his career to prove how utterly untrustworthy he was long before the Nazi–Soviet Pact was signed in August 1939, yet as Alexander Solzhenitsyn pointed out: 'Not to trust anybody was very typical of Josef Stalin. All the years of his life did he trust one man only, and that was Adolf Hitler.

For me, meeting new people was generally an unfortunate necessity, not an interest. Anabelle Farren might have actually been an exception for me, if I hadn't been absolutely confident that she — or Nakht — was about fifty percent likely to obliterate me if I said the wrong thing. That sort of thing made it hard for me to be enthusiastic,

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

I was watching them carefully, and I know people. They weren't lying." "No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Jag har ett arbete åt dig. Jag anade det. Det är sällan någon bjuder mig på kalas av ren vänlighet.

No offense, but your explanations are as foggy as urine from an infected bladder," Geralt commented calmly, "and the loftiness of your expedition's goal is as dubious as a maiden's virginity after a village fate.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "...Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

Un chirurgo può permettersi di essere cinico solo dopo dieci anni di pratica.

Occultists, as brand-savvy as social media influencers and just as cynical.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?