Quotes About Skepticism

That is the nature of being well educated. It is to accept the framework of power and not question it.

Among the many reasons for regarding the fabled American exceptionalism with some skepticism is that the doctrine appears to be close to a historical universal, including the worst monsters: Hitler, Stalin, the conquistadors; it is hard to find an exception. Aggression and terror are almost invariably portrayed as self-defense and dedication to inspiring visions.

When everyone says the same thing about some complex topic, what should come to your mind is, 'wait a minute, nothing can be that simple, something's wrong.' That's the immediate light that should go off in your brain when you ever hear unanimity on some complex topic. (The Ezra Klein Show 2021/04/23)

Whenever I hear a four-syllable word I get skeptical, because I want to make sure you can't say it in monosyllables.

Men … I hate them. I've always hated them. You wonder why I always hang around with women and never with men, it's because men do things like this.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Politics. It's for idiots and bad actors.

When you could dissect something and find all the answers, you could find all the wrong ones

Science and education are part of what turned magic from the acceptable into the condemned, then into the dismissed.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Some would say too good to be true, but Iona had never believed that. Good should be true.

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Saint Augustine: This former skeptic confessed: "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee."43 If all men need God, including atheists, then it is unreasonable to conclude there is no God anywhere simply because some people do not find Him.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON

skeptics are caught in a dilemma. If they say history cannot be known, then they lose the ability to say evolution is true and Christianity is false. If they admit history can be known, then they must deal with the multiple lines of historical evidence for creation and Christianity.

doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

Creamos hombres sin corazón y esperamos de ellos virtud y valentía. Nos reímos del honor y nos sorprendemos al encontrar traidores entre nosotros.

And this, of course, is the central problem with conspiracy theorists — once you inflexibly accept that something is a conspiracy, any contrary evidence has the paradoxical effect of making your case stronger. Every contradiction deepens the conspiracy.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway," sci-fi novelist Ray Bradbury told an audience of college students in 1995. "Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _____________________________

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.

Most episodes of Seinfeld circuitously forward two worldviews: The first is that most people are bad (and not very smart). The ­second is that caring about other people is absurd (and not very practical). It is the most villainous sitcom ever made, particularly since its massive audience never seemed to fully grasp what it was literally seeing.

even the groups who took advantage of the gold rush were dubious about what was happening.