Quotes About Skepticism

Skepticism in favor of a presumption of guilt when the facts do not support a finding of guilt is irrational skepticism. And irrational skepticism is the smoke screen behind which these murders have been hidden for a hundred years.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Fear especially marked him—fear of what he was doing and at the same time fear that nobody would believe him.

No, the doubt was harbored where the votes actually come from: the folks.

and has created an atmosphere of suspicion

it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

I soon find out this Grosswalk has been feeding her a line, telling her that his wife is an incurable invalid not long for this world

I don't trust these stairs because they are always up to something.

You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.

If aliens are really hanging out in our 'hood, it's hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they're here?

Any war or conflict you enter where you are likely to lose more Americans and expend more treasure is something worthy of very detailed debate. There ought to be a lot of skepticism. There ought to be a lot of discussion.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.

The brand new user interfaces that Nintendo invented often faced skeptical views before a hardware launch but wound up becoming de facto industry standards.

The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

I think the best wrestling always needs to pretend to be real, and Vince Russo's wrestling is so pathetically far-fetched and phony that I think he does a disservice to his wrestlers and the business.

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

But look at that beautiful angel there! Do you really mean to say you don't believe in the Other Land? In an afterlife?' 'Just what we need.' Elphaba snorted as she picked up the tome. 'A post Vale-of-Tears Vale-of-Tears'.

Can you really say you thought the man who brought this here was a sorcerer? said Elphie. And that this book comes from - another world? Do you even believe in other worlds? I find it a great effort to believe in this one, said Sarima, yet it seems to be here, so why should I trust my skepticism about other worlds? Don't you believe?

Oh, wary, well, I'm wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned," said Glinda. "That doesn't mean I stop drinking water.