Quotes About Skepticism

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Once, when cornered by a pinwheel-eyed man who insisted that the mayor of Los Angeles was not human but a robot controlled by the audioanimatronics department at Disneyland, Joe had lowered his voice and said, with nervous sincerity, "Yes, we've known about that for years. But if we print a word of it, the people at Disney will kill us all." He had spoken with such conviction that the nutball had exploded backward and fled.

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

Carson didn't believe either man was what he presented himself to be. Frawley looked like a fixer, a slick operator who had friends in all the highest places and knew how to take care of any screwup they committed.

those who believe in nothing for long enough will eventually believe in anything.

Sad to say, not all human beings were that open-minded. Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

On Religion: I'm reluctant to believe that some statue of the Holy Mother wept real tears in a church in Cincinnati or Peoria or Teaneck last week after the Wednesday-night bingo games, witnesses only by two teenagers and the parish cleaning lady. And I'm not ready to believe that a shadow resembling Jesus, cast on someone's garage wall by a yellow bug light, is a sign of impending apocalypse. God works in mysterious ways, but not with bug lights and garage walls. Dean Koontz Cold Fire

These days, "science" is often nothing more than a cover story.

Unfortunately he'd fallen into a common trap. He was big on religion and weak on faith.

Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again.

What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.

The eternal companions of all clever women are mistrust and scorn.

Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their Amens and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he knew if he ever showed up on their steps, starving or injured, the only response he'd get to a plea for human kindness would be the amen of a shotgun pointed in his face.

Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.

age-old evil, tireless and vigilant, cloaked from the masses by modern skepticism, yet still a potent force stalking the dark ways of the night.

people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced.

people so often seemed not only willing but eager to believe the worst—and the worse, the better.

admitting a dubious

Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.' And those who must see, in order to believe?

No," he repeated, more sharply. "Of course I did not kill Gerald Siverly. What kind of flapdoodle is that?" Grey thought briefly of inquiring whether there was more than one sort of flapdoodle and, if so, what the categories might be, but thought better of it and ignored the question as rhetorical.

Well, la-di-dah," I said sarcastically. "You've got wings, mate.

Put not your trust in princes'?