Quotes About Skepticism

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

I honestly felt someone was having me on when they were like, 'Drake wants you on this track.'

I have always been critical and skeptical of fast-tracking. It is a take-it-or-leave-it approach to trade agreements which really deals members of Congress and their concerns out of the picture.

I've been told a million things in this league. I was Rookie of the Year, and then got traded... So it's hard for me to sit back and believe everything I hear.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

Never trust a dog to watch your food.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Never trust a woman or an automatic weapon.