Quotes About Skepticism

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Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful, brutal, terrible place.

I had to assume the worst about people because I knew firsthand what horrible things they were capable of.

I'm considering whether or not to believe you. I need to run an algorithm on this. That's not funny. You might be trying to trick me into sleeping with you.

Julie took the paper and looked at the fifteen-digit password. Paranoid much?

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other...I don't know. I can just tell.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

I'm optimistic but I'm also not stupid.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, I'm always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now?

Liberation from meaning leaves us skeptical of truth itself, comfortable only to acknowledge 'your truth' and 'my truth,' confident only in the reality of subjective feeling rather than objective fact.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close nigga watch your homies

Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.

I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.

Niggas be lookin shife, so I look shife back.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.