Quotes About Skepticism

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

I knew at a very young age that I didn't really buy the whole God gamut.

In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that, too.

I'm pretty skeptical about a lot of the toys on the market, especially for young kids. Most of them just add these new technologies just to make more flashing lights.

I traveled to Cuba with the intention of speaking with boxers who had turned down enormous offers to leave. When explaining my project to people, again and again I was met with amusement and skepticism.

This is what confuses me. People say, 'I believe that we landed on the Moon' but then they find it really far fetched that there can't be other planets where little men haven't travelled to ours.

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.

Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.

I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I'm very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is...

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.

First of all, no messiahs are sent. Secondly, no messiah got it. Lastly, no messiah is. And if there ever was or is, maybe I too am it. As too is every dimwit.

In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.

The Truth is doubted.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.