Quotes About Skepticism

And it's a hell of a lot easier to believe in a nudist than a werewolf

You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

the evidence is there. Thought control is, to a free people, a cardinal sin. It is dangerous because focused propaganda can be effective. This is why the best teachers insist on a broad range of learning, most especially including skepticism. We must teach our students to use caution when they are exposed to ideologies that have followers whose enthusiasm clouds their judgment.

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of genius, I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

However, the answer "Some people simply are transgender" doesn't seem to satisfy certain people, so they may feel compelled to seek out some kind of alternative explanation. Once again, this isn't the result of pure curiosity- after all, we don't actually understand why most people turn out to be cisgender, yet very few people ever inquire about that outcome!

The sad truth is, they should never trust me.

Because no one can be trusted.

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

You can't trust machines. You can't trust people.

I can't. I don't trust people anymore.

Can I just say that dying sucks? All that bullshit about seeing the light and having this inner peace, blah, blah, blah. It's crap.

Jesus," my father mumbled whenever he opened the refrigerator and found health-food peanut butter, brown salt-free bread, and a jar of thriving alfalfa seeds, "the world could end tomorrow and we'd have eaten a last meal of this stuff.

Y su moraleja es así: 'No hay tercera dimensión, la tierra es plana, el hombre repta. ¡Aleluya!' Quizá sea el diablo quien dice estas cosas, y quizá tú las crees porque te las dice un rey.

Cada vez somos más los que creemos menos en la utilización del humanismo para el nirvana estereofónico de mandarines y de estetas.

Tus nociones sobre la verdad y la bondad son puramente históricas, se fundan en una ética heredada. Pero la historia y a ética me parecen a mí altamente dudosas.

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...

Compounding Peter's distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the world.

men are by nature very brave, except when it comes to opening doors to strangers)

The question was, to what extent was he supposed to believe it? Of course, Gignomai had a special way of lying, which involved mostly telling the truth.

better not to piss off this loathsome and troublesome man, just in case we need him one day. Which is why nobody is ever pleased to see me, and why I never have to buy my own drinks.

S azon felül ráérdemelt egy kis leckére az álnok és kétszín? emberiség, mely nem hisz a maga által hirdetett igazságokban sem, ha ezek valóságosan el?lépnek

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.