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Quotes About Skepticism

But if one can't believe the Daily Telegraph one might as well become an Existentialist.
~ Auberon Waugh
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
~ Aubrey Eben
You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.
~ August Strindberg
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
~ Avicenna
The real subject of this Book of the Wilderness, I suggest, is the longing of the people of Israel to learn directly from God, by learning something new about the Torah, about the world and themselves. What they are developing in their skeptical discourse is a language of imaginative truth, in which the fantasies of return to Egypt will be brought into connection with the miracles of Exodus. In them, traumatic suffering and traumatic revelation seek some subjective expression.
~ Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
One day your child will ask you- Why did you allow them to inject me with fake covid vaccine Why did you not understand that corona, zeka, omnicron, deltacron, IHU, and all others are fake and are pharma mafia created virus to make money? What will YOU DUFFER say ?
~ Awakened India
Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.
~ B. A Santamaria
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
~ B. B. King
Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.
~ B. Traven
How do I know that you aren't manipulating me right now, like you do everyone else, to get what you want?" "Because if that was true, you and I would already be lovers.
~ B.J. Daniels
He locked gazes with her. "I have to wonder why you aren't being straight with me. I hate getting myself killed without knowing why.
~ B.J. Daniels
Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them; for the witches themselves are imaginative; and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft.
~ bacon francis v
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
~ Adnan Pachachi
I'm rarely optimistic.
~ Paul Singer
I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
~ Frank A. Clark
The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
~ Francois Englert
I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.
~ Juan Gabriel
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.
~ Andrew Card
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
~ Robert Walpole
You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.
~ Peter Jackson
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll