Quotes About Skepticism

You start to grow up and you learn from all the stories around you what the world is like, and yous tart to lose freedoms. Not because anybody actually tells you that you've lost them, but because you know you need to take care...Beware darkness, isolation, the outdoors, unlocked windows, men you don't know. And then you realize too that even men you know, or thought you knew, might not be okay.

Those who blindly trust cannot be enlightened.

In a small, independent organization, these small wins will generate energy and enthusiasm. In the mainstream, they would generate skepticism about whether we should even be in the business. I want my organization's customers to answer the question of whether we should be in the business. I don't want to spend my precious managerial energy constantly defending our existence to efficiency analysts in the mainstream.

And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds.

He told me he loved me, Clem.' Oh Lord.' 'And I believed him.' 'How many dozens of men have told you that?' 'Yes, but he was different 'Famous last words.

What do you expect me to do, leap across space and brain them with the jawbone of an ass? Or maybe they'll go away if I throw ricks at them?

Anything with the word 'Tesco' or 'Weight Watchers' on the label should be viewed with some suspicion.

Avevo letto da qualche parte la parola 'nichilismo' e a scuola chiesi al mio insegnante di inglese cosa significasse. Significa non credere in niente mi rispose, e subito seppi di aver trovato un nome per il mio stato d'animo. Non era solo mancanza di qualcosa in cui credere, era non credere, di fatto, in niente.

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.

Plenty of boys had talked of the secret graveyard before, but as it had ever been with Nickel, no one believed them until someone else said it.

Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

She had formed a distrust of men who carried Bibles. It seemed to her that they believed their own voices were somehow embedded there.

Holding up my credit card so Gilley could see, I snipped it in half. 'You act like I don't have the numbers, expiration date, and security code memorized,' he mocked.

Kennedy stood her ground, like a predator trying to decide if this was worth the physical exertion. After an uncomfortable silence, she said, "I find that hard to believe.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Sic nos in sceptra reponis?

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

But the Daily Mail isn't to be trusted, Jacob said to himself, looking about for something else to read.

çünkü arkas?nda belli bir neden yoksa kad?nlar herhangi bir ilgiden çok kuÅŸkulan?rlar, gizlemeye ve bast?rmaya öyle fena al??m??lard?r ki, kendilerine dikilen bir göz k?rp?ld??? anda f?rlay?p kaçmaya haz?rd?rlar.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit; she knew that.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

Mas o amor, dizia ele, era tudo menos credível, a vida real era ridícula, os labregos riam-se do amor.

Some men might ha' told the police about it—but I never cared much for them. They're like kids in a way, always asking questions—most of which you can't answer.