Quotes About Skepticism

Harold,' she would say, 'do you think I'm a fool? If I place the Crimson Diamond in any safe-deposit vault in New York, somebody will steal it, sooner or later.' Then she would nibble a sprig of catnip and peer cunningly at me.

I don't have a hostile disposition toward humankind per se. In fact, I feel quite warmly toward humankind. It's individual humans I have trouble with. I'm prone to a certain skepticism about people's motives and character, and this critical appraisal can harden into enduringly harsh judgment.

One reasonable reaction to evolutionary psychology is a self-consciousness so acute, and a cynicism so deep, that ironic detachment from the whole human enterprise may provide the only relief.

Se ha inventado casi todo pero no ha inventado el hombre una máxima de gobierno que supere a los principios de un Cristo, un Buda. No. Naturalmente, no le discutiré el derecho al escepticismo, pero el escepticismo es un lujo de minoría... Al resto le serviremos la felicidad bien cocinada y la humanidad engullirá gozosamente la divina bazofia.

Y Erdosain remiró aquel rostro casi redondo, con laxitud de paz, y en la que sólo denunciaba al hombre de acción de chispa burlona, movediza, en el fondo de los ojos, y ese movimiento de levantar una ceja más que otra al escuchar al que hablaba. Erdosain distinguió a un costado, entre el saco y la camisa de seda que usaba el Rufián, el cabo negro de un revólver. Indudablemente, en la vida, los rostros significan poca cosa.

Everybody tends to pigeonhole things they don't understand," said San Epifanio.

I don't trust people who cook from recipes," said the stranger, as if he hadn't heard him. "So whom do you trust?" asked Morini. "People who eat when they're hungry, I guess," said the stranger.

Y en quién confía usted? - le preguntó Morini. -En la gente que come cuando tiene hambre, supongo-dijo el desconocido.

I don't trust people who cook from recipes," said the stranger, as if he hadn't heard him. "So whom do you trust?" asked Morini. "People who eat when they're hungry, I guess," said the stranger. Then

Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Si, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.

Si esa mujer me hubiera dicho que un pedazo de su caca envuelta en una bolsa de la compra era un poema yo le hubiera creído.

I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.

Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

She stared at him suspiciously. 'You drank all

But there is another type, one who goes about the world cadaverously, cheeks sunken, bones jutting, and one senses that he so disapproves of the whole of the world that he begrudges every bit of it that he takes inside himself. At that moment I would have wagered that Galen had never truly enjoyed one bite of food or one swallow of drink in his life.

on Gerda Lerner] As for stepping outside of patriarchal thought: "Being skeptical toward every known system of thought: being critical of all assumptions, ordering values and definitions . . . , developing intellectual courage, . . . the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all - that of intellectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorder the world.

Getting scientists to consider the validity of Indigenous knowledge is like swimming upstream in cold, cold water. They've been so conditioned to be skeptical of even the hardest of hard data that bending their minds toward theories that are verified without the expected graphs or equations is tough. Couple that with the unblinking assumption that science has cornered the market on truth and there's not much room for discussion.

Leave it to Massachusetts to create a gun policy so paranoid that even when you took the proper legal steps no one believed you.

Today, he carefully stepped through McPherson's house, where a single half-drunk glass of wine and a plate of sliced cheese sat on the kitchen counter. The knife she'd used to cut the cheese had been left near the remains of a wedge. "Snack for one," he observed. "Maybe dinner." When he arched a brow, she said, "I'm a single woman. I recognize a meal when I see one." "If

Because you're a suspicious bitch.

What a lying piece of dirt! ~ Eve

You?" Nadia sounded disbelieving.

A few bad apples, Okay I grant u that ~ Bentz