Quotes About Skepticism

A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be trusted,ever,because sooner or later they'll let you down,sure as God made little green apples. And, when you came to think of it,hadn't that been the dirtiest trick of them all?

Eddie asks, So what next? And Jesus, his eyes dark but laced with a hint of mercy, the thorn scars just barely visible at his hairline, says, Damned if I know.

Estaba asombrado de que le hubiera resultado tan fácil. Lo único que tenía que hacer era decirle a la gente lo que la gente quería oír, y te creían, por muy absurda que pudiera ser la historia que les explicaras. Y tres días y tres noches sin dormir habían aletargado los recelos y la capacidad de escepticismo del inspector Flint.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

A belief that doesn't require evidence is still only a belief.

All religions are a scam . . . except for yours of course.

Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.

Just remember that the masses are asses and you'll be just fine.

Abraham Lincoln famously noted, it is possible to fool some individuals all the time and all individuals some of the time, but it's not feasible to fool all individuals all the time.

They were asking me about my life, suggesting that I was insane, while they probably head up pedophilia rings.

How do you manage for money?' I asked. I was given two simultaneous replies of 'We get by' from Ian and 'Don't ask' from Neil. I favoured Ian's reply because it had less-sinister connotations. 'Don't ask' left open the possibility that they raised funds by selling hitch-hikers into slavery. I changed the subject.

Stol på meg, frøken Aemelin, folk som man kan lure, liker man litt mindre.

Haven't you ever been spooked by something everyone else thinks is a nonissue?

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.

When faced with remarkability, she wasn't sure she trusted it.

That's bollocks,' said Owen's voice over the loudspeakers. 'That a medical term?' asked Jack. 'It is when I use it.

The policeman looked him up and down and Jack raised an eyebrow. 'Want my phone number, constable?

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

If the pope were caught on tape tomorrow worshiping Satan, the story would likely die within a day. It would be too implausible. Video or not, no one would believe it.

You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.