Quotes About Skepticism

Quotes are for people who like broad generalizations

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

In his quieter, darker moments, Lemuel would often wonder if the Imperium was really as enlightened as it claimed.

Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.

Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.

Randy had an inkling that something else was afoot. Shelly's father appeared too eager to pass his daughter off to another man.

Hannah set down her paperwork. "That's complete bullshit.

Facebook'?" he asks. "Seriously? Now we're using that piece of self-absorbed crap as an investigative tool? What's wrong with your generation?" "Nothing that we can't fix once your generation is gone.

bullshit." "I wish. I just got off the phone with her so-called lawyer—Deke Meyer. They want to work out a deal so that Mimi can be

Never trust in theories, m'lad, if they're thought up by types who work in offices.

I have an allergy to dogma, including my own.

I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.

Hell, no. I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.

Non sopporto i politici, è gente che ti promette un ponte anche se non ci sono fiumi.

In the beginning we feared everything - animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky - everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No one knows why anyone does anything. No one tells the truth. No one is happy. No one is safe.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

A lot of people I read start off as skeptics or nonbelievers. There comes a point in every reading when you see their worldview being changed.

One of my favorite outfits is one I picked up on a trip to Chandigarh. I've worn it once and am skeptical about wearing it again in spite of loving it so much, thanks to the 'fashion police' who won't wait a second to splash it out in the papers or feature me in the 'same to same' blog.

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.

Before, I was a little bit skeptical about women coaching, because I don't know if maybe they are different, and not every woman can be strict to take the best out of you. I was worried about this, but so far I see that some women can be much stronger than men, actually.