Quotes About Skepticism

It's hard to sell the official story to people who can see things for themselves.

For all we know, this"—he scrolled up on the phone screen to find a label—"this Wikipedia information database here is compiled by complete idiots.

Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.

I'm not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually

You strike me as a 'glass half-empty' kind of guy, sir," he said. "I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.

It's not whether she tells everyone," Huma said. "It's whether they believe her." "It's the truth." "Oh, my daughter," Huma said, and smiled. "Don't tell me you don't know how little that actually means.

It's conspiracy mongering." "I agree. But not all conspiracies crop up because someone forgot to adjust their tinfoil hat, ma'am. Sometimes they're part of a disinformation campaign.

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.

I thought I asked to dispense with bullshit." "There's bullshit and then there's bullshit, Lady Kiva." "Well, you're right about that, at least.

I trust you," Dahl said. "Famous last words," Nick said

You believe someone is leveraging all this to work against me." "You are the emperox, ma'am. Someone is always working against you. It's in the job description.

there are now lots of people working overtime in the American culture to suggest that people who believe in evolution and the big bang also want to mandate forced downloads of child porn into your computer and give terrorists the key to your house.

He had know guys all his life who gave him that feeling. Even as a kid. People who were always lying, even when they didn't have to.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

When I was a kid my ol' man give me a haltered heifer an' says take her down an git her serviced. An' the fella says, I done it, an' ever' time since then when I hear a business man talkin' about service, I wonder who's gettin' screwed.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists.

It seems to me that young people have lost their faith in America. Our ancestors had faith.

Three things will never be believed: the true, the probable, and the logical.

She looked at him suddenly and closely, to see how he had come so close so quickly. She looked for motive on his face, and found nothing but friendliness. Then she looked at the frayed seams on his white coat, and she was reassured.

Almost instinctively he went about learning the truth and at the same time disbelieved it.