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Quotes About Skepticism

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.
~ Ronnie Shakes
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
To many, Courtney Love smells like rock hype. Reviewers may be excited about her, but the rock audience may be skeptical of the credentials of someone who is more famous for her interviews and her spouse than for her music.
~ Robert Hilburn
The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'
~ Brian Fallon
For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.
~ Malcolm Nance
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.
~ Annie Jacobsen
I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.
~ Bari Weiss
The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
~ Anita Brookner
A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.
~ Herodotus
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
~ Francis Schaeffer
I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.
~ Octavia St. Laurent
I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
~ Lee De Forest
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
~ Albert Einstein
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
~ Baron d'Holbach
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
~ Carolyn Wells
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.
~ Malcolm X
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
~ Petronius
Let man be true and every god a liar.
~ Samuel Butler