Quotes About Skepticism

this is the downside of intuition: when it feels so exactly right, other people's skepticism is infuriating.

Springsteen and Julianne Phillips were married. The story moved from Patti Scialfa's early career to her current state of bliss and ended with gushings of the "they were clearly meant for each other" variety. Oh yeah, right. Like that marriage would last. I

It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.

Había aprendido a no confiar demasiado en las afirmaciones de los demás, sobre todo si sus palabras les reportaban algún beneficio.

I suspected, though, she was simply mean.

LI QUAN If they ply you with expensive gifts and sweet talk, they are up to something.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Not that kind of proof, Kyber. Come on, Buck Rogers got a ride in a flying car, and all I get is a slide show and a history lesson? It's going to take more than this to convince me that I slept for almost two centuries.

His lower jaw dropped. "You don't believe me?" She rolled her eyes at the strange metallic ceiling. "Can a politician talk?" "Excuse me?" "Can a gun shoot?" "If it's loaded with a projectile. " She

Angel was different in every way possible. When he looked at her with those cool gray eyes, she had no idea what he was thinking. That was kind of fun, She just hoped it didn't mean he was a serial killer.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended houses where young ladies were raised from the dead and considered this particular example to have been, upon the whole, a rather dull affair.

I should tell you all with pleasure,' said the General, 'but you would not believe me.' 'Why should I not?' he asked. 'Because', he answered testily, 'you believe in nothing but what consists with your own prejudices and illusions. I remember when I was like you, but I have learned better.

You can always tell when a politician has spoken from the heart: he takes it back the next day.

It was best not to ask too many questions of the Ferrets and Weasels of this world. There was less to deny when the headhunters put you on a polygraph.

She was afraid of what she called the young man's "personableness." She distrusted it for itself, and hated it as a potential threat to her house.

Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

I'm never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?

Law enforcement hardened you. It made you cynical about people. Even people you loved. The people who deserved your unconditional trust.

There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter how well you thought you knew someone, no one ever entirely knew anyone else.