Quotes About Skepticism

Be strong, be vigilant, strike first. And trust nobody.

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,

You were attacked by an albatross?" Clearsight said skeptically. "With … tentacles?

know you're lying but I can't say you are because you're the queen but maybe you should just admit it because my eyebrows are so onto you.

I know," he said, looking down his nose at the SandWing. "Obviously I figured that out. That's the only reason I'm agreeing to this." "Oh," Qibli said with a rakish grin. "I thought perhaps it was because I'm so charming and convincing.

He could not feel at ease with gourmets and hedonists; they were a hostile species.

the tendency to believe something despite there being either evidence to the contrary, or no evidence at all.

When the situation seems to be exactly what it appears to be, the closest likely alternative is that the situation has been completely faked; when fakery seems extremely evident, the next most probable possibility is that nothing fake is present.—Erving Goffman, Strategic Interaction

If you want to create wealth (in the narrow technical sense of not starving), then you should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing.

To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. You need the young hacker's naive faith in his abilities, and at the same time the veteran's skepticism.

If reports about a candidate talk about how something "raises questions," creates "shadows," or anything similar, be aware that these are all too often weasel words used to create the impression of wrongdoing out of thin air.

Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

My mother always said a steady diet of scary bad news was just a right-wing plot to make people afraid to trust one another, and I used to laugh, but I think maybe she was right.

She shook her head. "I don't know one pretty young man from the other," she declared.

Dzigar Kongtrül has a sign on the front door of his retreat cabin that reads, "Don't believe everything you think." That's the basic idea here.

Who can refute a sneer?

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.