Quotes About Skepticism

All generalizations are questionable.

People are always willing to believe the worst about someone.

Thatcher looked over to see if there was an innuendo behind the question

Then we all sat around; we were supposed to be awed. I was brattishly unawed.

Dios nos salve de todos aquellos que quieren salvarnos y nos salve también de los que supuestamente deben protegernos

Oh I don't know about that. - The Manteceros

I get poked and prodded like this every morning. I'm like a piece of meat unearthed from the back of the fridge, suspect until proven otherwise.

The longer I do this job, the less I like people. The species, of course," he adds grimly. "There are individuals I like just fine.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Don't believe everything you hear

Now I think miracles are things that happen in stained glass, and on dusty Jerusalem roads thousands of years ago. Not here, not to us. Not when we need them.

Fennik growled. You mock me. Korbyn's face was innocent, like Jidali's after he sneaked a cookie from Aunt Sabisa. I would never mock such an illustrious personage, Korbyn said.

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt." "You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

Don't trust the natives, Olivia has told me, but I was already a step ahead of her. I didn't trust anyone. Not for directions, not for rides, and not for advice either. Sure it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened – good bad or anywhere in between – it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I was just a fool.

At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.

sometimes even when I know that you're lying, I still almost believe you.

He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.

After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us.

She believed in nothing, if it wasn't for her skepticism she would be an athiest.