Quotes About Skepticism

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level. I think that's mission critical. Artists have to be educated, and choose wisely and watch platforms carefully.

I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.

When my fans and actors like Rajinikanth and Amitabh garu wished that I do films once again, I thought I should do. I had some skepticism in me, initially. But looking at the encouragement, I grew in confidence.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

People and nations wither away without the freedom to question what is presented to them as the truth.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Liberals always cry wolf.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.

I really can't abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That's certainly true of most of what's happened in Russia under Putin.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.