Quotes About Skepticism

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

You believe what your eyes want to believe!

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.""You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

As I grow wiser and more skeptical, I realize that almost everything in nomenclature comes full circle. The question remains whether I can outlast the taxonomists.

Those who can't be loyal never believe when others are

I didn't do it,' he insisted. 'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked. 'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

I don't care what is written, Meyer Landsman says. I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.

bullshit sniffer set as ever to a brutally low ppm.

the greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast

The wind of righteous adventure that had begun to sweep through the square subsided as this secret captain and master of the accumulated lore of soldierly skepticism began to explain that any king who controlled both the treasury and the army was, in the eyes of the world, legitimate, and that while no one could know the mind of God, the Almighty had in the past shown a marked tendency, in his view, to ratify public opinion.

Under the circumstances, skepticism had felt like a kind of madness; to choose belief was the only way forward.

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

just because they say it doesn't make it true. After all, they're lawyers.

The digital world was always billed as a great advancement but he remained skeptical.

He didn't understand why he always saw people typing feverishly on their phones. He was sure it was some sort of warning, a sign of the decline

Just so you know, I'm guessing she had no doubt about whether she was raped, okay, McGee? Her hesitation was most likely about making a report to a department and officers who don't give a shit and don't view rape as much of a crime.

him in '93, so there is no reason to believe he

I reminded myself of a simple truism—everybody lies

Looks like it,' Winston said.

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.