Quotes About Skepticism

I have no use for Valentine's Day, with its limited menu and cramped seating.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

I totally understand skepticism, and I think it's so important for me to show validation of my readings.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Many people no longer trust major media outlets to give them valuable information - and they may never do so again.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

Consequences are that heavy TV viewers trust other people less, and join fewer voluntary organizations, than do people who are not heavy TV viewers. Before blaming TV-viewing for those behaviors, one might object: which is the cause and which is the result, or are the two sets of phenomena just correlated without either being the cause of the other?

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream , I must be dafter than I look.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Really?" I asked, which is probably the only answer to anything in Conspiracy.

I've always been suspicious of game changers,' she added. 'Sometimes the game doesn't need changing – or no one has a clear idea of which game will be changed, and for what and how much.

I would sooner stick needles in my eyes. And why are you holding on to your eyebrows?

cómo quieres que crea en un sistema político que le da el derecho de voto a un individuo como yo?

When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.

Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are factitious, as their name suggests.