Quotes About Skepticism

If you read the same things as others and say the same things they say, then you're perceived as intelligent. I'm a bit more independent and radical and consider intelligence the ability to think about matters on your own and ask a lot of skeptical questions to get at the real truth, not just what you're told it is.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

3. Be careful of Web research. Be wary of what you find on the Web. After all, it was Abraham Lincoln who said, "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they were genuine.

There was an old saying among the Perish that a room full of women was a knife-seller's vision of paradise. 'There will be betrayal.' Oh yes indeed. Betrayal .

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

I don't know if it's a consequence of 'Black Mirror,' but I am slowly becoming more and more technophobic.

I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.

I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift!

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

REGARD NONTRADITIONAL FOODS WITH SKEPTICISM

But for all his admiration of the student's intelligence and ability to internalize Russell's arguments, he is dismayed by the young man's willingness to accept those arguments without question. This is a great insight into the revolutionary ethos, especially insofar as it is found in the minds of the young. The college campus rebel bravely questions the existence of God or long-standing societal customs but never thinks to question that which he seeks to replace them with.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Men jeg innser klart at dette gode er svært vanskelig å gjenvinne; svakhet og lang erfaring har gitt oss en mer kresen og nøyeregnende smak. Vi forlanger mer samtidig som vi har mindre å tilby; vi vil ha flere valgmuligheter, når vi selv minst fortjener å bli valgt. Fordi vi vet at i er slik, blir vi mindre dristige og mer mistroiske, og i betraktning av vår egen og deres tilstand, er det ikke noe som kan forsikre oss om at vi er elsket.

That's what lying had done to the world. All the lying that people had been doing since the dawn of time, all the lying they were doing still. The price everyone paid for it was the death of trust. It meant that no two humans, however innocent they might be, could ever approach one another like two animals. Civilization!

It's amazing how people like judging.

John Perry Barlow, poet and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, once said, "Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

La primera regla resulta muy sencilla: No me creas.

La tercera regla es: No creas a nadie. No creas a otras personas porque todas mienten constantemente.