Quotes About Skepticism

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

He is also wary of people who think they know the path.

Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

I'm definitely suspicious of girls. I've been suspicious of girls my whole life, though, so it's not anything new.

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

am often asked why, if UFOs and abductions are real, the spaceships do not show up in more obvious form. "Why don't they land on the White House lawn?" is the reigning cliché.

The high degree of public skepticism over the use of surplus funds is reflected in a widely cited poll in the early 1990s that found that nearly twice as many young Americans age 18 to 34 believed in extraterrestrial life than that Social Security would exist when they reached retirement age.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

One man may be deceit. Two can be conspiracy. Three is the number I trust.

What is this?" he asked. "Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?" It was the last three words that made Will smile. "We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger, or a knight of the realm, "he said. "But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.

A wise man once told me, don't believe anything you hear until you've seen it with your own eyes," Halt said. Crowley looked up at him. "Who said that? Pritchard?" It sounded like the sort of thing their old mentor might say. Halt affected to think for a few seconds, then gave a slight smile. "No. I think it was me, actually. I can be very wise at times.

You'd be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.

What is this?' he asked. 'Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?' It was the last three words that made Will smile. 'We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger or a knight of the realm,' he said. 'But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.

What is this?" he asked. "Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?" It was the last three words that made Will smile. "We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger or a knight of the realm," he said. "But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.

It was a statement that was almost exclusively said by totally untrustworthy people.

was a statement that was almost exclusively said by totally untrustworthy people.