Quotes About Skepticism

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

I think gas prices are a conspiracy.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

From day one I knew Pro Elite didn't know what they were doing.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

A lot of people want to discredit me.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

Europeans distrust a Europe that overpromises and underdelivers.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'