Quotes About Skepticism

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

Don't be a fool, Katniss. Think for yourself.

Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Peeta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby.

That I shouldn't have trusted him," says Peeta.

What can you guarentee, O Nostradamus of Hayward?" I carp.

i have everything i need, except people i can trust!

Disse bem: talvez. Porque «de mim, tudo pode ser dito , mas nada pode ser provado» - citou a freira, em voz baixa, suportando o olhar do homem. . Isabel Tudor, rainha de Inglaterra - replicou Mark, completando a citação.

In modern times, if a man quotes a Moses or a Buddha or a Christ, he is laughed at; but let him give the name of a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Darwin, and it is swallowed without salt.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

When events like the Sony Hack or the news of the Russian hack of our election, we're not shocked by such events, but they are troubling.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Normally skeptical journalists routinely give renewables a pass. The reason isn't because they don't know how to report critically on energy - they do regularly when it comes to non-renewable energy sources - but rather because they don't want to.

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver