Quotes About Skepticism

Hutter thought, not for the first time, that she hated a lot of cops. Ugly, mean drunks who believed the worst of everyone.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.

If you knew it was there, why didn't you just take it before now?" "You would have noticed. You are a smart boy." A lie, and we both knew it.

This is what drives me crazy whenever I hear people say things like, "Ask the universe for what you want, and you'll get it," why I fucking hated that Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist that everybody was reading int he late nineties. Whenever I saw the book in anybody's hands on the subway I always wanted to say, "So the reason a million Tustis were just slaughtered in Rwanda is that they didn't ask the universe not to kill them ?

Suspicion kills friendship.

I'm sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.

Better than Hope," said Trace. "What the fuck is Hope? Hope for what? An icecream? A quick death?" Bemusement on the faces of several marines. "Uh, isn't that kind of the point?" Arime asked. "That Hope can mean anything you want it to?" "It means nothing," Trace said flatly. "I'm sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.

There's something not quite Christian about it," Tony said. He sat back in his chair and looked up to where his Bible sat on the shelf. "I can't put my finger on why exactly, but it doesn't seem right for a couple of young ladies to be out there in the middle of the night, obsessing over their telescopes.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.