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Quotes About Skepticism

She wondered if perhaps the man had been sent to end her by flattering her to death.
~ Neal Shusterman
I know the thing the Tonists believe are ridiculous, Citra said, but I suppose to some people, there's something compelling about them. That's what turkeys think about the rain, Marie pointed out. They raise their eyes heavenward, open up their beaks, and drown.
~ Neal Shusterman
The more crap you believe, the better off you are.
~ Charles Bukowski
Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
~ Charles Bukowski
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
~ Charles Bukowski
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
~ Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
~ Charles Bukowski
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
~ Charles Bukowski
They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
~ Charles Bukowski
Have you ever been in love?" "Love is for real people." "You sound real." "I dislike real people." "You dislike them?" "I hate them.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish.
~ Charles Bukowski
My revolution is a one-man revolution and almost everybody is the enemy. I may not be doing a great deal of damage, but at least I'm not bullshitting.
~ Charles Bukowski
He stood there as I walked on. Never trust a man with a perfectly-trimmed mustache …
~ Charles Bukowski
Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
~ Charles Bukowski
We live in an age when we are no longer surprised that people let us down the only surprise is that we are so constantly willing to allow ourselves to be deceived.
~ Charles Bukowski
Faith is all right for those who have it. Just don't load it on me. I have more faith in my plumber than I do in the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing.
~ Charles Bukowski
people who believe in politics are like people who believe in god: they are sucking wind through bent straws. there
~ Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
~ Charles Bukowski
If I bet on Humanity I'd never cash a ticket.
~ Charles Bukowski
I began counting each fool that passed me. I got up to 50 in two-and-one-half-minutes, then stepped into the next bar.
~ Charles Bukowski
the people will always betray you. never trust the people.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had decided against religion a couple years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the most foolish.
~ Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took. On
~ Charles Bukowski