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Quotes About Skepticism

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
~ Ernst Mach
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
~ Russell Baker
I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.
~ Peter Thiel
You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.
~ Harry Kroto
Never trust a television executive.
~ Dominic Holland
I had no expectations of white people at all.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
I'd love to believe in my government so I could trust law enforcement people again. I don't have that belief any more.
~ David Thibodeau
I remember seeing the first LEGO movie, almost skeptically. People were like, 'You should really see it!' And I was like, 'A LEGO movie?' And then, I was like, 'This is really good!'
~ Zach Woods
Not to be negative, but I think the biggest lesson is don't trust anyone.
~ Jeff Baena
I keep reading between the lies.
~ Goodman Ace
I don't trust people who are likable.
~ Claire Messud
I will never, ever support a law that could clearly lead to an abuse of power just because of some lip service assuring me that it won't be used that way. To me, that's not enough.
~ Kat Timpf
Ever since I was a little kid, I've always felt un-trusted.
~ David Berman
It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
~ Benjamin Clementine
When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.
~ Mark McKinnon
People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
~ Elliott Abrams
Lying is the rule, not the exception.
~ Pamela Meyer
I really don't believe in magic.
~ J. K. Rowling
I don't like magic.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.
~ Jesse Ventura
I don't take Mars One seriously at all.
~ Andy Weir
The assault, it seemed, was relentless. Tongue in cheek, he writes, "Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side." The
~ Diana Pavlac Glyer
I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.
~ Diana Wynne Jones