Quotes About Skepticism

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes in the future.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.

It was only after Caroline had admitted lying to me, and only after she'd made me admit that I'd lied to her, were we both fully ready to believe each other. To quote John Calvin one last time, "Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

You don't need miracles in the west. You have insurance.

Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.

los propios padres con frecuencia desconfían enseguida de cualquier tratamiento que no culpe al niño, y solo al niño, de todas las dificultades.

Be cautious whom you trust. — Don't easily trust anyone on this earth because there are all kinds.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Si esas personas mantienen la calma es porque están seguros de que los datos de los científicos han sido manipulados por fuerzas oscuras, y en todo caso son tan exagerados que hay que resistir valientemente las opiniones de aquellos que se llaman "catastrofistas" y aprender, como dicen, "a conservar la cordura" viviendo como antes, sin preocuparse demasiado.

I know the name of your seventh-grade Texas History teacher." When the Texan expresses skepticism that this could be possible, you smile and say, "Coach.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Often dogma masks a lack of true faith, so I can't say that it interests me much.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

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