Quotes About Skepticism

Beware of conference-room promises. (Ronald Moen.)

Conspiracy theories are, like horror, tales of how the worst thing you imagine is true. "You think things are bad? Well, let me tell you, buddy, you don't know the half of it.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Never trust a man who doesn't drink.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

Sometimes my dad even gets on this kick--'You hate this country'....I have to tell him...I just hate being lied to.

(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit, " which was and is awesome.)

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."