Quotes About Skepticism

I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

That's the trouble with you preachers, he said. You've all got too good to believe in anything, and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

There a series of Catholic rituals and teachings had offered her young life a coherent universe. By 1946, Savannah had for O'Connor ceded to the university world of Iowa, where new influences, including intellectual joys, brought with them questions and skepticism.

Man is nothing but a coagulation of mud and shit ... equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or crab-louse

People are a lot less likely to think that their family member is part of the government conspiracy.

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

This world is always fed up with politicians.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I don't trust anyone except a very, very few people.

There are very few people who I can trust. I look at those people and say, Why do you keep coming back?

Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields.

Fighters need someone they can trust. We can't trust anybody.

I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up close.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

First of all - I only believe what I see.

When you hear politicians who won't fix the broken system talk about expanding it, don't buy it.

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.