Quotes About Skepticism

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

Seto Kaiba [to Ishizu]: How do I know you didn't just make this slab a few days ago?! There's no proof it's 3,000 years old! Even carbon dating doesn't work perfectly on rocks!

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either – Don Marquis ("ghosts")

The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.

Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical?

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren't they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

A man who tells you he's no fool has his suspicions.

Never trust a man who kin look a pretty woman in the eye.

Suspicion aint' proof.

He was as trustworthy as a bent tuppence.

Whether it's true or not, who cares? The truth is for teenagers and hippies. We're too old and ugly for that crap. Wake me up, make me think, or buy me a drink. Otherwise, fuck off." Michael Rutger, The Anomaly

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.

He looked at me like I'm the delivery boy who wants to marry his sister. He then proceeded to make it very clear he knows what he's doing and I don't. It was relentless.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Never trust any Goldman

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Never trust someone who tells good stories, not until you know why they're doing it.

Never trust someone who tells good stories, not until you know why they're doing it.