Quotes About Skepticism

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Never trust people who've only got one fucking book.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

Nothing could be more wrong than the old cliché that says any religion will do just as long as one is sincere. In no other area of life is there so much error, deception, and charlatanism as in religion.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

Always know your mark. And if your not 100% sure who the mark is... the mark is probably you. -Thieving weasels

When two pessimists get together, it results in an endless cycle of pointless second-guessing. Very interesting.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

Beware of those that fall at your feet, they may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time

Nobody believes—even the people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62 percent of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

On the other hand, those who believe kundalini is the mechanism that leads to enlightenment are often skeptical about the non-dual teaching that awakening can be sudden and without preparation. Their perspective is that the body is involved in transformation, which makes cultivation through practices essential.

I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

It's when you want to get something for nothing that the 'confidence men' steal the money you sweat for and make the farmer a laughing stock.

The use and abuse of belief is the fundamental issue for the twenty-first century.

It's better to assume trust and find out that you are wrong than to always assume people are trying to screw you over,

Too touristy a move for such a sophisticate as moi? Of course. But there is a reason certain activities become touristy, no? My

Know what you know. Most people oversimplify Occam's razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn't complicate, that you shouldn't "stack" a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess. Andrew

Oh, please." Hickory looked skeptical. "Your show is pure sensationalism. Tripe tabloid at its worst—" Wendy interrupted him. "We've met before, Mr. Hickory." That slowed him down. "Have we?" "When I was an assistant producer on A Current Affair. I booked you as an expert on the Robert Blake murder trial." He

Myron stepped toward the light, ignoring the symbolism. "Whatever you're selling," he said, "how do I know you haven't made copies?