Quotes About Skepticism

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

I don't think they should trust anything that happens in 'Fargo' at all, and I'm sure 'Fargo' fans know not to make the mistake of trusting too much.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

I'm a guy that verifies before he trusts.

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

The Chinese are just not trustworthy, as we have seen before.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.