Quotes About Skepticism

My grandmother likes you. My mother worries that you might be related to Satan.

Something's going down," I said to Morelli. "All the players are here. Maybe we should call the police." "I'm the police.

Her oldest brother, Lowell, usually sent her a conspiracy-laden tirade about the government being in cahoots with Big Oil, the Russians, and the Taliban, in no particular order.

Sometimes I find human nature to be real disappointing

I thought your mother liked me." "My grandmother likes you. My mother worries that you might be related to Satan.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work.

Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

When I say to beware of the 'Fauci Ouchi,' it is a way to cut through the clutter and communicate that the heavy hand of government should never threaten you with taking an injection you may be skeptical of or are unwilling to take.

I quit because I was good, and when you're good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.''Of what?''Of what part of yourself you didn't know you were selling.

Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.