Quotes About Skepticism

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know?

You don;t believe me?" He sound wounded, like the thought of me not believing him makes him incredibly sad. "No." "Then come with me," he says. He unfolds his long legs and stands up. "To Cooley's. You'll see they just posted the schedule. If I'm lying, I'll buy you a chocolate shake." "And If you're not?" "Then I'll still buy you a chocolate shake." He grins at me.

You want people to take it seriously, but most people are still going to act like it's just some dumb thing you're doing and ask you about it in the way people do when they don't think you're ever going to finish what you started.

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

has even been suggested that Marco Polo never made it to China, despite his apparently firsthand descriptions of that region.

Only believe half you see and nothing you hear or read Laurence Elliott

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism,

Chi è veriterio, si accontenta. Non sospetta nemmeno che potranno non credergli.

From the utopian viewpoint, the United States constitution is a singularly hard-bitten and cautious document, for it breathes the spirit of skepticism about human altruism and incorporates a complex system of checks, balances and restrictions, so that everybody is holding the reins on everybody else.

Never believe the wicked though they are sweet tongued. The honey is only in the tip of their tongue–the heart is full of venom.

I know someone who believes that Hugo Boss scents constitute proof that God does not exist.

Civilised man does not discover gods, he discards them.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.

Progress, that great heresy of degenerates.

Lucien thought. And as for Christianity, he agreed with his father: it was a well-intentioned set of beliefs that never worked in real life.

As well, the very religiosity of step 2 is a major problem for many persons. Like steps 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11, step 2 refers to "God," "Him," or "a Power greater than ourselves." (Note the capitalization.) This poses obvious problems for those who believe that the existence of God is no more likely than the existence of Mother Goose.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.