Quotes About Skepticism

Do you think…" He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?" "That Valentine might have drowned?" "Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.

Never trust a duck.

She wondered why she'd ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.

Malcolm looked warily at her. 'She may be dangerous,' he said to Julian. 'Then again, all women are dangerous.

Jesus," said Clary. "I doubt he'd fit (in the wooden box)." " Jace ." Clary was apalled. -Clary & Jace, pg.255-

But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer" "I did have that thought.I checked the apartment out,but if his got an ice cooler full of arms in it,I havent seen it yet.Anyway he seems pretty since.

It was like a bad movie except he didn't actually twirl his mustache." -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-

And she tricked us into taking walkie-talkie rings she could listen in on," Simon said. "I wouldn't trust her further than I could throw a medium-sized elephant.

I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

There's an old saying that you should believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.

You should believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.

Smart people are often too smart to take advice from others.

I think people are slow to believe in any kind of change." "That's 'cause nobody ever changes," she said. "Do you really believe that? Not ever?" "Well. Hardly ever. I guess you could be the exception to the rule." She still sounded as though she planned to wait and see, but it was marvelous progress all the same. It made my whole day.

A beam of light sweeps down through the skylight in the roof and makes him look like the chosen one, which I often suspect he just might be. In that deep place where I believe almost nothing, I am tempted to believe that - a light, irritating tickle of belief.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.

One time a Fuckwit brought a snowball into work to prove that the planet getting warmer was just a story to scare little ones and I don't know for sure but I like to think he (or at least all his descendants) got eaten by sharks.

result has been a far greater knowledge, amassed in this participatory method, than anyone had ever dreamed possible, balanced by collective and professional procedures for sorting through the data for obviously wrong or misguided reportings. If professional astronomers can adopt such a de-centered method for assembling information, certainly college and high school teachers can develop a pedagogical method also based on collective checking, inquisitive skepticism, and group

But because we know we won't be believed, we don't quite believe it ourselves.

Jess looked up. Was it possible he was hitting on her?

Als u de mensheid hebt verlost, waarom mij dan niet - dat was toch in één moeite door gegaan?

On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal on the future of the human soul and speculated on the possibility of the soul being reincarnated on another planet. Evidently, Gauss was a Deist with a good deal of skepticism concerning religion.

Fredric Drum hadde definitivt ristet av seg de siste rester av godtroenhet og mildhet overfor det bedrageriske skinn som kaltes «tilfeldigheter».

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.