Quotes About Skepticism

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. SOPHY BURNHAM

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Intreviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

He seems to think I'm about five, the way he's treating me.' Lizzie took the lantern and placed in on a table. 'I don't suppose you had anything to do with that, didn't you?' 'Oh no,' I said, eyes round and innocent.

He gave the impression that he believed in things. We did too—it was just that we wanted to believe in our own things, rather than what had been decided for us. Hence what we thought of as our cleansing scepticism.

Martha was a clever girl, and therefore not a believer.

Once bitten, twice shy; twice bitten, forever shy.

historians need to treat a participant's own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an eye to the future that is the most suspect.

To je ono Å¡to ne valja na ovom svetu, pomislila je. Digli smo ruke od osmatranja.

All the world knows it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

I always doubt people... I've survived by not believing in other human beings.

Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.

I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.

It's a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

The pleasure of deceiving would fade to a shadow before the anxiety of being deceived.

Men in general, the sisters concluded, were gullible but not to be trusted, greedy but frivolous with money, predatory but easily trapped.

If there's one thing you taught me, it's to never trust an answer that's actually another question.

Financial standing, a social position beyond what she has now, and a husband to dote upon her every wish. What more could she ask for? Maybe youth. Vigor. Teeth . Lord Cameron has his own teeth. Margaret narrowed her eyes at the other candidate. I'm not so certain about Munro. They seemed somewhat clacky at dinner, so I'm suspicious.

He didn't believe animals could think, not in the way he defined the term, but he wasn't much impressed with human thinking, either. He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

He kept his eyes down. He was hiding nothing, but the truth is no servant to man. You can't make someone believe you just by telling the truth any more than you can make the truth false just by not believing it.

A man at another table accused his breakfast partner of pulling rainbows and unicorns out of her ass.

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It's equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.