Quotes About Skepticism

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren't being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.