Quotes About Skepticism

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

I don't believe Wikipedia about anything. I don't go there for anything but keywords.

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you're a bit skeptical about.

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.

Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think it really counts?'

I'm not actually terrified of technology. Though I'm certainly not an early adopter, either.

I don't see the value in Tesla.

Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn't like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac

admit that I only know what I read in the newspapers or see on the television. But that is the only information most of us have to go on. If it is incorrect or biased or even downright lies, how can we be expected to know?

I give every person about me credit for the best intentions & honesty of purpose until they prove themselves unworthy of my confidence. I applied

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

His favoured objects of contemplation were economic facts, usually in statistical form. He used to say that his best ideas came to him from 'messing about with figures and seeing what they must mean'. Yet he was famously sceptical about econometrics – the use of statistical methods for forecasting purposes. He championed the cause of better statistics, not to provide material for the regression coefficient, but for the intuition of the economist to play on.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

Cato warns people to be on their guard against every 'haruspex, augur, soothsayer and Chaldaean' (astrologer). Here we can recognise the old Roman who does not want to be hindered in his daily activities.

Yau proposed another round, then asked: 'Is it true that to the west of the Khalif's domain there live white-skinned people, with blue eyes and yellow hair?' 'There can't be men like that!' Chiao Tai protested. 'Must be ghosts or devils!'(49)