Quotes About Skepticism

I believe there are lizards living amongst us. Do these humans who appear to be humans and look like us and act like us, go into the tunnels where their human faces, their human bodies - do they retract back into being lizards when they go into the tunnels?

Facts and particulars annoy me.

In some ways it's hard not to be a bit cynical when a friend tells you about their fantastic new diet, because there's a fresh eating fad in the press every day.

Don't believe the fake media.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

My dad has never had a mobile phone or computer. And that was the way when I grew up, so I still take tech with a pinch of salt.

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

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?

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling you this! Because if someone is a medium and they are legit, they're not going to be shocked by skepticism, they're not going to be taken aback or intimidated by skepticism.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

Just because someone tells you they love you, it doesn't mean they actually do.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'