Quotes About Skepticism

when Sabastain asks for a mandake root harvested by the the new moon at crossroads, Garnet responds)...... Why not just ask for it grown under a gallows?

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.

What I know is this: they didn't believe me. Twelve people and not one of them took me at my word.

Más tarde se habría de reír al leer esta ingenua afirmación suya, pues habría de descubrir que un pueblo que sabe leer y escribir constituye todavía mejor clientela para los aventureros y farsantes políticos. La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

He became an adult who—like so many others—viewed God's actions in the abstract until they impinged upon his own life.

Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

I don't have smart speakers in the house because I have a thing about whether they are recording our conversations.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

I look up spells for the heck of it. I haven't done any spells but I don't think that they wouldn't work.

Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.

I just don't want to believe in ghosts, ghouls and spirits.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.