Quotes About Skepticism

NEW-AGENT TRAINING at the FBI Academy in Quantico, sometimes called "Club Fed," was turning out to be a challenging, arduous, and tense program. For the most part, I liked it, and I was making an effort to keep any skepticism down. But I had entered the Bureau with a reputation for catching pattern killers, and I

Gilda gives me a funny, eyebrows-raised look. I don't know why.

Here are some other people I don't trust as far as I can throw a truckload of pianos.

No lo entiendes, Alex? No, creo que no lo entiendes. —¿Qué es lo que no entiendo, Jezzie? Dímelo de una vez. —Siempre estás buscando la parte buena de la gente. Pero no existe.

He shook his head. "Just — beware of Mr. Chu. He makes Itex look like Sesame Street.

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

General notions are generally wrong.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

Women are proverbially credulous.

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.