Quotes About Skepticism

Keeping an open mind is a virtue," Carl Sagan wrote in The Demon-Haunted World, the last book he published, but "not so open that your brains fall out…. I have a foreboding of an America when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." That was twenty years ago.

Believe everything you read

Still never had any friends because I hate everyone for they were so phony.

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

my credo, "Oftimes it seems to me, 'patriotic' rhymes with 'idiotic,

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?

I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine

Those who are incapable of great crimes don't readily suspect others of them.

The surest way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.

Men are never so easily deceived as when they are endeavoring to deceive others.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a "dream" is going crazy.

Seriously?" Zuzana muttered. "As if he knows. Like he didn't tell the last twenty-five reporters because he was saving this excellent secret knowledge just for her?

Hope was mirage, and none trusted easily to it.

For obvious reasons, crowds are worse than ever. My misanthropy knows no bounds. Hate rises off me like cartoon heat waves.

Who sneers? wondered Eliza, fadingly. She'd thought it was something only book characters did.

Companies will keep enticing you that see the prices have started going up and their paid news anchors will keep barking that upward rally has started. But don't fall their bait and keep on SELLING SHARES

Don't buy any shares and rather sell to avoid being ripped off by stock market. Don't be lured and fooled by stories of 54 weak lowest share price propagated by paid youtubers and business news anchors

So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.

Simon's dark eyes were serious. "I trust you," he said "I don't trust him ." He cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat. Clary wondered what they were talking about. Politics? Opera? The high price of tuna?

Sebastian) "See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that." "Like what?" "Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my cigarettes with orphans.

Are you trying to get run over by a cab?" "Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.