Quotes About Skepticism

I'm sure you're already aware that you should never trust a gentleman who says you can trust him.

She looked at him in askance.

Beware a woman asking questions. You will never answer correctly.

What are you up to?" she asked. "Why would you think I'm up to anything?" Her lips pursed before she said, "You wouldn't be you if you weren't up to something." He smiled at that. "I do believe that was a compliment." "It wasn't necessarily intended as such." "But nonetheless," he said mildly, "that's how I choose to take it." -Sophie & Benedict

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage.

I never believed in the institution of marriage, because ever since I was young, I had only seen marriages fall apart, or remain stuck in a rut.

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

Talvez o facto de viver numa grande cidade como Londres me levasse a desconfiar de estranhos, hábito que queria perder.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

And if you show me a mathematical formula, all you are showing me is a piece of paper with strange markings on it, and I have no way of knowing not only whether the markings are actually there, but whether the piece of paper exists.