Quotes About Skepticism

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .

FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue.

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

I've decided to hire a 'food taster', not because I think anyone is trying to kill me, but because I want to make sure it's not to salty.

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.

True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

our greatest enemies are those who are without certainty. The ones with questions, the ones who regard our tidy answers with unquenchable scepticism. Those questions assail us, undermine us. They…agitate. Understand, these dangerous citizens understand that nothing is simple; their stance is the very opposite of naivety. They are humbled by the ambivalence to which they are witness, and they defy our simple, comforting assertions of clarity, of a black and white world.

It's a poor scholar who trusts anyone's judgement. Even and perhaps especially his own.

Quick Ben. You snake-eyed shifty know-it-all bastard from the bung-hole of Seven Cities. I never liked you. Never trusted you, even when I had to. The things you know about, why I—

Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason