Quotes About Skepticism

I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say 'tell the truth, ' and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

Don't trust something you don't understand !!

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder…If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

Be suspicious of what you want.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn)

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!