Quotes About Skepticism

I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

I ain't going to buy no iPhone.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces?' Why did we want to believe that Lance Armstrong really did all these things that, looking back, seemed impossible?

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

We are almost in a time beyond jokes, beyond satire. When the Trump era is called the 'post-truth' period, then this is the greatest joke of all, albeit quite depressing.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

As with any field, if something does not fit into the current understanding of how things work, it raises eyebrows, hackles or both.

Let every student of nature take this as a rule,-- that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

The true atheist is he whose hands are cauterized by holy things.

Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule: that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion, and that so much the more care is to be taken in dealing with such questions to keep the understanding even and clear.

Great hypocrite are the real atheists

Hoje em dia, (…) chegámos a um ponto em que os cidadãos se distraem com as teorias conspirativas mais bizarras sobre o modo como o governo está a ser manipulado por elites obscuras para lhes retirar os seus direitos, e armam-se em antecipação do momento em que terão de se defender do Estado pela força.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Nadie ofrece tanto como el que no va a cumplir

no sería bueno que los mexicanos dejaran de creer en unos hombres que en su mayoría sólo han asesinado, robado y castrado las conciencias?

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.