Quotes About Skepticism

It's a useful habit never to believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism — an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established.

Much more reliable will be the doubters and skeptics, not because skepticism is good or doubting wholesome, but because they are used to examine things and to make up their own minds. Best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.

who actually believe that men in think tanks are thinkers and that computers can think;

do not know if he means to use that sword to help us or to prod us into the hands of our enemies. The Scotsman could well be one of those DeVeau hirelings." Guy shook

Check out the comments underneath," Augie says. I move the cursor down. "There are over fifty thousand of them." "Just click 'Top Comments' and read a few." I do as he asks. And as always when reading a comments section, my faith in humanity plummets:

people believe any crackpot conspiracy they see online.

He sounded genuine, but Myron knew that meant nothing. People were amazing liars.

You could trust nature but not man.

Those who claim they can spot a lie are usually just fooled with greater conviction.

it be nicer to think your parents, who worked hard, gave you those presents instead of some creepy stranger?

Dimonte spit into the can again, trying hard to cover up his obvious body language. "We're still working on it." "Uh, let's pretend for a brief moment that I'm not a mentally dehydrated numb nut.

Adam expected Mayor Gusherowski to look like a fat-cat politico fresh off the graft train—soft build, ruddy complexion, practiced smile, maybe a pinkie ring—and in this particular case, Adam was not disappointed. Adam wondered whether Gusherowski had always looked like a poster boy for corrupt politicians or if, over his years of "service," it had just become part of his DNA. Three

Foot traffic was picking up. The girl who'd hurled the crushed can was now making out with her target. Ah, the French. A traffic officer started gesturing for a white van to stop blocking traffic. I turned and waited for Terese to answer. She put down her coffee. "I can't imagine." But there was a catch in her throat. A tell, if you were playing cards with her. She wasn't lying. I was pretty sure of that. But she wasn't telling me everything either.

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I'm not casting any aspersions here." "Okay.

I trust no one totally.

I have a message for all the birdies who try to get in touch with people online who they think might help them to meet me or give my personal information. That will never happen. Don't believe anything anyone tells you on social media about me because not even my parents know what I am up to.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.