Quotes About Skepticism

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

Much of the skepticism Schrödinger's claim attracted at the time was rooted in the general belief that delicate quantum states couldn't possibly survive in the warm, wet and busy molecular environments inside living organisms

There's no truth anymore.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

He had this way of talking where you could never quite be sure that he wasn't mocking you.

found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And

Psychic." "Thirty pounds a ticket, they're paying, to sit there with a glass of cheap white wine and shout, "Yes!" when someone asks did someone in the audience have a relative whose name began with J.

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

One of the primary instincts that a reporter has is skepticism.

Now, however, my skepticism was weaving around loose and uncontrolled in my brain ready to get settled in.

Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.

You cannot deceive me if I'm not looking for anything from you.

If you take home one souvenir from this part of the tour, may I suggest that it be a suspicion of moral monists. Beware of anyone who insists that there is one true morality for all people, times, and places—particularly if that morality is founded upon a single moral foundation. Human societies are complex; their needs and challenges are variable.

When we want to believe something, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe it?" Then, we search for supporting evidence, and if we find even a single piece of pseudo-evidence, we can stop thinking. We now have permission to believe. We have justification, in case anyone asks. In contrast, when we don't want to believe something, we ask ourselves, "Must I believe it?" Then we search for contrary evidence, and if we find a single reason to doubt the claim, we can dismiss it.

Grumbling, grimacing, and mumbled curses peak during the muddled middle of murder investigations, when promising leads break their promises.

Never trust anyone who doesn't smoke pot or listen to Dylan. Never trust anyone who doesn't like the beach. And NEVER ever, EVER, EVER trust anyone who says they don't like dogs!

I have always been careful of people who say they are behind me because that's where you need to be if you are going to stab them in the back.

Spotting the same car three times could have been a coincidence. Kim Kardashian's boobs could be real, too, and that's about as likely.

I was never much of a believer, kid, but if there ever was a God, then He wasn't on the clock that night. That's something you can debate at Sunday school. For my part, I don't see much evidence of any divine hand in what happened.

On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

The skeptical rule is, No one gets the final say: you may claim that a statement is established as knowledge only if it can be debunked, in principle, and only insofar as it withstands attempts to debunk it.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.