Quotes About Skepticism

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

Was he pretending to be jealous to conceal the fact that he was?

In fact, as I get older, I begin to feel that actually what we need more in the world is doubt; more skepticism, less crazed certainty. . . . People who know the answer and are going to impose it on everybody else, I think, are terrifying people.

We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first.

You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you? The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. Sure, do you have one handy?

I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.

So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe that your back is against the wall and you desperately need me for something. I'm dying to know what that is.

That's all right, she told him. I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine. Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

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

You can convince yourself of just about anything when you want to believe a conspiracy theory.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn't trust anybody outside. You'd bring someone home, and the first question was, 'Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?'

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

I've never met a skeptic of VR who has tried it.

I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.