Quotes About Skepticism

Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

The young man is handsome, pleasant, and extremely charming. Don't let him fool you.

You distrusted the Imperials too. Most human beings do these days, which is an important factor in the decay and deterioration of the Empire.

Don't you think my interest can be real, even granted that it is professional, too?" "No, I don't.

And finally, people are against it." "But why?" "Because they're against science in general. You should know this as well as anyone, Professor.

three ships lost in the same sector in the same year can't be accident, and

There are always tales and there is always a patriotic refusal to disbelieve, even though the tales are never in the least credible and are never believed by anyone not of the world that produces them.

He would have to ask questions constantly, take nothing for granted. There would be so many opportunities to miss the obvious, so many chances to misunderstand, so many ways of taking the wrong path.

If you told me he were Satan in masquerade, there would be a faint chance that I might believe you.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

At times, your cynicism borders on impudence.

Eliminate the impossible and whatever remained, however improbable, was the truth.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

We distrust doctors because it's obvious that good health does not promote good business, and we go to them only when everything else has failed, after we've tried all the remedies recommended by our friends and acquaintances.

No creía en la oración como método eficaz para resolver problemas de orden práctico.

nunca, no pedir nada, esforzarse por ser los primeros en todo y no confiar en nadie. Alma

prefería entenderse con Dios sin intermediarios, tenía profunda desconfianza de las sotanas y se aburría con las descripciones del cielo, el purgatorio y el infierno

Se sentía agobiado por la imbecilidad de la raza humana.

When you have the president arguing that there was mass voter fraud in the absence of any evidence whatsoever - I mean, literally zero - what's to stop anyone from saying so-and-so's a so-and-so?

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

I care about the people saying they're protecting us not protecting us. That's a big zero.

Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.