Quotes About Skepticism

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

nunca te fíes de quienes dicen servir a Dios. Te hablarán con serenidad y buenas palabras, tan cultas que no alcanzarás a entenderlas. Tratarán de convencerte con argumentos que sólo ellos saben hilvanar hasta adueñarse de tu razón y tu conciencia.

The resurrection of Jesus is pure myth.

Don't you find it fascinating, boy-o, that the people who call on God the most believe in God the least?

Weltvertrauen, vertrouwen in de wereld. Hij beschrijft hoe moeilijk het is om zonder dat vertrouwen te leven. Wie dat vertrouwen eenmaal is kwijtgeraakt, is voor altijd tot eenzaamheid veroordeeld onder de mensen. Zo iemand ziet in een ander nooit meer zijn medemens, maar altijd alleen de vijand.

Una vez lanzada una acusación, por muy infundada que sea, la duda empieza a teñir la mente de quien la escucha.

You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say -Pauline in "In the Presence of a Clown

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästsn allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästan allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

It certainly takes a rather simplistic gullibility to accept that the American efforts to colonize the Moon were abruptly canceled because the public, of all things, had lost interest.

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

Well, I'm not that much into ideals. I can't see the point of it.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

You must know everything. The whole world will fall at your feet and grovel before you. Everybody must envy you. Do not trust people. Do not have friends. Do not lend them money. Do not give them your heart!

Life is rubbish," he muttered. "The world's a bordello. People are swindlers…

Hypotheses non fingo (Latin for "I feign no hypotheses", "I frame no hypotheses", or "I contrive no hypotheses")

Unless the introverts with intuition are stoutly skeptical of the mass assumption that a difference is an inferiority, their faith in their type will diminish. They will not trust and exercise their preferences, which, accordingly, will not be developed enough to be beneficial. These people are thus cheated out of the successful undertakings that would give them faith in their type.

It follows that these people [INTJs] cannot be successfully coerced. They will not even be told anything without their permission, but they will accept an offer of facts, opinions, or theories, for free consideration;

Brenda knew it was just a fluke, that statistically speaking I was almost always at least partially full of shit, but the other two passengers were real impressed, like I was all at one with my natural habitat.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.