Quotes About Skepticism

We urge you to regard with great skepticism any sentence that begins 'Everybody knows...' or 'Common sense tells us...' Often, these phrases are signposts for cultural belief systems that may be antisexual, monogamy-centrist, and/or codependent.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

What's more likely, that someone found a way to hack this unhackable system? Or that Isaac Jordan willingly killed thousands of people?

Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,

Probably a serial killer, she thought to herself.

Would extraordinarily advanced alien beings really traverse this unimaginable gulf just to blast patterns in our cornfields, mutilate our cows, and probe our anuses? Surely they'd have better things to do.

You really don't get it, do you? Most people are sheep. Stupid and uninformed. And they don't dig. They don't think for themselves. They'll trust a sincere voiceover and whatever the television tells them.

woman do you take me for?

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

There is one other possibility to explain the oddity of the Enlightenment thinkers ending up so prominently in the firing line of our era. And that is this: The European Enlightenments were the greatest leap forward for the concept of objective truth. The project that Hume and others worked away on was to ground an understanding of the world in verifiable fact. Miracles and other phenomena that had been a normal part of the world of ideas before their era suddenly lost all their footholds.

They weren't really looking for repentance; postmodern irony would do. When

In the early days of my career, I always wrote with skeptics in mind, trying to make sure they would approve of my work.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.