Quotes About Skepticism

Vrei s? fii vr?jitor, a zis. — Nu ?tiu. — Mincinosule. Vrei s?-i fii ucenic ?i s? înve?i magia ?i s? c?l?re?ti pe o m?tur?. — Nu prea cred c? vr?jitorii adev?ra?i c?l?resc m?turi.

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.

In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.

I know that a man who tries to convert me to any cause is actually at work on his own conversion, unless he is looking for funds under the mask of some fancied nobility.

Maybe only my fraudulence was fraudulent.

Vivian was not alone in thinking that a man who spent so much time discussing table tennis was probably a spy.

Many of Philby's colleagues in MI6 would cling to that presumption of innocence as an article of faith. To accept otherwise would be to admit that they had all been fooled; it would make the intelligence and diplomatic services look entirely idiotic.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

If the Vatican has a say in it I wouldn't expect miracles.

Ninety-five percent of the people I deal with are shitbags who think the world is their personal litter box. I can't do them any good, and they don't want me to.

They were skeptical of my youth and inexperience, probably rightly so.

were growing increasingly skeptical of Lehman's judgment of the value of its holdings.

But the vote didn't capture the extent of the concern and skepticism on the Committee.

Not that these folks necessarily took what we told them at face value.

I was skeptical about giving someone such an important job based on recommendations rather than on qualifications and a record of sustained accomplishment.

Dudley was initially skeptical.

This type of rhetoric is all too common among secularists on the left. They paint a false dichotomy between religion and science. They say that religious people are anti-science, because science makes God irrelevant—therefore, religious people want to stop scientific progress. They point to the fact that many religious people are skeptical about the theory of evolution—as though skepticism of a scientific finding were in and of itself unscientific.

If you force a leftist to answer why we should all give up our nice cars while the Chinese and Russians continue to dump toxic waste into the atmosphere, they will avoid.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

I believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true," said Madame Phoebus. "And that is why they are so popular," added Euphrosyne; "the tast of the age being so decidedly for fiction.