Quotes About Skepticism

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

I love my country. It's just the government I don't trust.

I maybe trust too much.

I have learned in football that you can't trust anyone and if you listen to what everyone says, more often than not it doesn't happen. So when I'm told 'so-and-so are interested' or 'such-and-such have done this' I don't get caught up in it all.

I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

Trust me: not everyone is on the Adriane Lenox bandwagon. I'm not stupid enough to think that.

People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this.

Let no such man be trusted.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

I personally never trusted the audience.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.