Quotes About Skepticism

IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past.

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

From an evolutionary perspective, he says, it is safest to err on the side of gullibility. "If you miss the tiger hiding in the grass, you're dead. If you're always seeing tigers, you're running away a lot, but you're not dead.

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

The second destructive thought virus is "This won't work for me.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.