Quotes About Skepticism

I think my generation is extremely cynical about love.

My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.

Even as a kid, I don't think I bought into a lot of the mythology about Canada.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Too often people view idealists as naive.

I am not naive or stupid enough to imagine that people are just going to look at my face and vote for me.

I'm not naive.

I'm not going to take anyone else's word for it, or NASA, or especially Elon Musk with SpaceX. I'm going to build my own rocket right here and I'm going to see it with my own eyes what shape this world we live on.

I don't trust anyone anymore," he said. "This is what the war has taught me, not to trust." He shifted his hands to grip the handles of the crutches and moved away.

One can not always believe what one hears.

Once you realized that everyone with whom you associated was, potentially, happy to literally stab you in the back, all the wondering just . . . went away.

If he says there's nothing wrong with them, then there most certainly is something wrong with them.

She stood there looking up at him as if he were a good man and would save her. He was debating whether or not he was that good. Unfortunately for her, he didn't think so.

It had been hard to tell him. Very hard. She'd learned not to trust anyone, but more importantly, she knew not to get close to anyone.

What the hell was he shooting at? You? Or the birds?' 'He fired off a few rounds at me, both from here and back there.' Lev turned to indicate the spot where the assailant stood. 'Then he was shooting at the owls.' 'The ones that attacked him.' There was open skepticism in Jonas's voice. 'I don't carry spare owl feathers in my pocket,' Levi said.

So now I'm supposed to believe you haven't been with another woman for five years. Get. Out

He was very leery of things that didn't add up, and she was one of them.