Quotes About Skepticism

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

When I came up with Ethereum, my first first thought was, 'Okay, this thing is too good to be true.' As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good - fundamentally, completely sound.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

I'm not a comic. There's twenty five percent of me that doesn't trust people who identify as comics.

There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.

People don't want truth, they just want trash.