Quotes About Skepticism

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Never trust a white person black people don't like.

He was neutral on prayer, skeptical of free speech, sympathetic to tax protestors, indifferent to Indians, afraid of blacks, tough on pornographers, soft on criminals, and fairly consistent in his protection of the environment

I don't trust judges. Perhaps it's the nature of my profession. I like knockouts, not decisions.

Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence is a joke nowadays.

As Chester poured more water, she asked, "Does all drinking water come from a bottle?" For some reason this was amusing. "Oh yes," Mattie replied. "No one drinks the water around here. Our fearless regulators promise us it's safe to drink, but no one believes them. We clean ourselves, our clothes, and our dishes with it, and some folks brush their teeth with it, but not me.

Cecil's minute is too good to be true. It is almost certainly misleading.

believing that whatever else she did, she would be surrounded by treachery and deceit.

it was impossible to believe they would stay on the same side for long.

Now, ordinarily, when we say we know something, we can give compelling reasons for it. But when a philosopher says he knows he is holding his hand in front of him, he can give no reason that is as certain as the very thing it is meant to be a reason for. My having two hands is not less certain before I have looked at them than afterwards.

Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who was the traveling black agitator who had come in and stirred up their "good black people." And had I discovered if there were any communists behind the disruptions?

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me.

What a phrase that is: "that explains everything!" I know better than to think that anything "explains everything" today.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-- make sure they know what they mean!

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of people she had met.

Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?

I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.

What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs.

I have sufficiently urged that all suggestions as to financial innovation be regarded with extreme skepticism. Such seeming innovation is merely some variant on an old design, new only in the brief and defective memory of the financial world.

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.

I shall never be completely happy at it, for I shall never be able to do much thinking myself—and I have been just clever enough, in my youth, to mistrust everyone who tries to think for me.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.