Quotes About Skepticism

Before you deride the "mainstream media," note that it is no longer the mainstream. It is derision that is mainstream and easy, and actual journalism that is edgy and difficult.

E poi, meglio non scrivere e passare per finto che scrivere e togliere ogni dubbio.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

Why do we believe one stranger and not another?

For Pascal, lack of faith was a kind of laziness, a view summed up by T.S. Eliot in his introduction to the Pensées: "The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

It's not so much that I am a cynic, I just might take a bit too much pleasure in demonstrating why things aren't as rosy as they seem.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Do not believe everything you think or that you believe.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.

Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind - hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass - if it did.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

Religion? The fashionable substitute for belief.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognise them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!