Quotes About Skepticism

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it to me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about.

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

"Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near."

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.

I don't believe in love at first sight.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic." "Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

the modern world abounds with heralds of a better future and with debunkers happy to point out that Yeats was silly like us or that Thomas Jefferson may have had a Negro slave as a mistress--and so we are disencumbered of the burden of great lives, set free to be as cynical or desperate as we please.

If he held me in true regard he would not believe such insinuations in my disfavour. A worthy lover should assume one has unanswerable motives for all one does!" "Certainly—

You see I don't think much of my own sex, Mr. Hartright—which will you have, tea or coffee?—no woman does think much of her own sex, although few of them confess it as freely as I do.