Quotes About Skepticism

No entendía la televisión. Me resultaba estúpido pagar para ir a ver una película o al teatro y sentarme junto a otra gente para compartir sus emociones. Las fiestas me ponían enfermo. Odiaba la comedieta, el juego sucio, el flirteo, los borrachos aficionados, los coñazos.

Joe wasn't coming. It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

he doubted whether any one with my nose could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage. But I think he was afterwards well satisfied that my nose had spoken falsely.

On the other hand, I am not very sceptical,—a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met with not a few men, who, I feel sure, have often thus been deterred from experiment or observations, which would have proved directly or indirectly serviceable.

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presented in an honest and straightforward manner. A little mathematical sophistication—and a little practice—allows you to recognize errors of randumbness, causuistry, and regression to the moon; once you get used to spotting phony patterns and false connections, you'll begin to see them everywhere.

Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.

Skepticism is always a good first response.

The 2008 financial crisis only deepened Chinese skepticism that free-flowing capital and floating exchange rates work swimmingly in a modern economy.

At first glance, the most suspicious thing about polling is that the opinions of so few can tell us about the opinions of so many.

Him? Make the trip twice? I might have believed it if I'd seen it, but I didn't, so I won't.

When he gave me the book, Bill said Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.

Understanding the role of God's protection will not help us very much if we don't first understand exactly why we need it. If your eyes are not yet open to the behind-the-scenes context of our new life in Christ—if you are still skeptical about the whole business—prepare to be jolted by the reality of the conflict raging around you.

I mean, do you believe in God or what? " "Not the name-brand God they serve here." Tim said. "That old guy with the beard, granting wishes out of the clouds to whoever says the most rosaries. That's bullshit. I believe in everything.

I don't believe in miracles.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.