Quotes About Skepticism

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work.

That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

I'm very much a realist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

I'm a realist.

We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

I take everything with a grain of salt.

The Internet can be an enlightening place... you have to take it with a grain of salt.

I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.

Over time, my mother also gave up her dream of seeing me as a bride because whomever she showed my horoscope to would say my marriage wouldn't be a successful one. It was not the kind of thing I believed in, but it did grant me some semblance of peace.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.

It was so strange because I thought Washington was going to be so grown-up, and everyone was going to be so nice. Then people were saying to me, 'Watch your back in D.C.' Why? Really? I have to watch my back in D.C?

Unfortunately, I've been burned a lot. So I have my guard up.

I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'

I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

Sometimes I'm gullible; sometimes I'm not.

I don't trust people much and I thought 'perfect' Park Bo Gum might have flaws. He drops some foods while eating.