Quotes About Skepticism

a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

The only one among them who wrestled a bit with their role—as the guys who had made a fortune betting against their own society—was Vincent Daniel. "Vinny, being from Queens, needs to see the dark side of everything," said Eisman. To

the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Moses could have walked in the door, and if he said he came from fixed income, Vinny wouldn't have trusted him

I said this was his story. I didn't say I believed it. I don't. You shouldn't either. That would be best.

Shortened attention spans and increased skepticism have added new rules for an effective lead.

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

paranoid is someone with all the facts, the joke went.

Watch out for those health claims.

Nutrition science, which after all only got started less than two hundred years ago, is today approximately where surgery was in the year 1650—very promising, and very interesting to watch, but are you ready to let them operate on you? I think I'll wait awhile.

I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy into a single thing the guy was saying.

I'm someone who likes to question things that are put in front of me, I like to think I'm someone who asks 'why sir?' not a 'yes sir.'

Anyone who has to have the word 'charming' in their name probably isn't - just take a look at any dating site where men use 'prince charming' in their description.

There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

Hell would freeze over before I saw my parents happily holding hands and ice skating.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.