Quotes About Skepticism

Distrust everyone,' she said, 'and you can never be betrayed. Opposed, but never betrayed.

We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more

He glared at Jorge. "I doubt you're American, but we'll throw you in as a bonus.

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

The man who will demand ten signatures upon a promissory note and look askance at you if you tell him of interplanetary distances, will swallow any idle fable, no matter how absurd, if it be boldly asserted and surrounded with sufficient nonsensical mummery and labeled as a religion.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

I'm pretty sure whoever said, people are wonderful spent very little time with people.

I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.