Quotes About Skepticism

Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.

Women are more credulous than men.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist.

When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

Women are suspicious. Men are devious. Infinite loop.

My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

When someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights... and you can look back on Earth and see the Earth's curvature, I'll believe the Earth is a globe.

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

You can think somebody's stealing from the cookie jar, but if you don't catch him you don't catch him.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

a skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate the evidence before believing. In its truest sense, a skeptic is someone who keeps an open mind, but requires rigorous investigation before choosing to believe something.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society, it is belief. -George Bernard Shaw