Quotes About Skepticism

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.

you." "Bullshit.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

Es ist nichts so absurd, daß Gläubige es nicht glaubten. Oder Beamte täten.

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

It's dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, 'Why do I want this dream?'

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.