Quotes About Skepticism

La gente de la ciudad es tan desconfiada... pero supongo que es normal

Be careful before you believe someone in this world because we are living in such a world where there is artificial lemon juice use for welcome drink and real lemons use for finger bowls.

Kad se jedna laž ponavlja dugo, narod po?inje da veruje.

It's just a bit annoying when a man you've only just met thinks you're planning to assassinate a world leader. It puts a downer on your whole day. You start wondering who else people think you're secretly planning to kill.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Now the mental test of any variety is one of the prime voodoo fetishes of our time, so you may have to argue a little to find out the results of the tests;

historical skepticism, (2) new information, (3) cultural factors that have changed how we assess things, and (4) the innate desire in people to seek, cope with, or understand the spiritual.

One factor is skepticism about institutional religion of all sorts

One thing about pessimism is that it feels sane. Pessimists are those who can't be taken in, people who can't be fooled. I told you so. But it is also a habit of mind. It reconciles us to being powerless. It justifies detachment, indifference. It is even fear of having power....

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

If you're using a dollar store pregnancy test, you're probably pregnant.

Skills which are so great as to amaze those of lesser talents are always mistrusted. Thus

Sam was stunned. "A wheelchair? A wheelchair? What kinda cop you know goes around in a wheelchair? How

They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.

Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

To believe that we know nothing assuredly, and cannot ever know anything assuredly, is to take too much on faith.

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When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

I am sure this occasionally bothered Francis, even though he obviously knew that most High Table life is dominated by pedantic, middle aged men incapable of either amusing or educating him in anything worthwhile.

Yeah, right," Minho said. "And Frypan's gonna start having little babies, Winston'll get rid of his monster acne, and Thomas here'll actually smile for once." Thomas turned to Minho and exaggerated a fake smile. "There, you happy?" "Dude," he responded. "You are one ugly shank.