Quotes About Skepticism

It's really sad how many people believe in curses.

I've been to 25 psychics so far. I've even gone to see a woman called 'the mother' who just hugs you.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

No one I've loved has ever not had an agenda.

Frank Curry thinks I'm a soft touch. Might be because I'm a woman. Might be because I'm a soft touch.

I'm always looking for a reason to disregard.

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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen

The main hindrance is one's own antagonistic frame of mind. All the systems of Yoga in India and every form of religious discipline, worship, or prayer is designed to overcome the barriers posed by the overcritical intellect, by dogma, skepticism, ego, pride, and other recalcitrant traits of the mind.

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.

Marietta, I do not believe in ghosts, astrology, palmistry, graphology, John Cage, love or God. I do believe in the moment, in the pleasures of the flesh, of conversation, of art-at least for the few so minded. I believe . . .

cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.

Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men.

I have never planned anything illegal in my life,' Aunt Augusta said. 'How could I plan anything of the kind when I have never read any of the laws and have no idea what they are?

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

If you don't see misery you don't believe in it

he distrusted any man who showed so little sign of employment.