Quotes About Skepticism

Não é que eu não tenha fé na humanidade. Deixei foi de acreditar nos homens.

To a [conspiracy theory] believer nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected.

That woman is hiding something!" she said. "You think everyone's hiding something." "And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.

Keep your distance, men. Don't be fooled into believing that our enemies are helpless. These 'girls', as they call themselves are a crafty bunch. I've see inside the thing they call a 'purse'. It is filled with all kinds of toxic sprays and pointy things they wouldn't hesitate unleashed on us

That woman is hiding something!" she said. "You think everyone's hiding something." "And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Trust, but be careful in whom.

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

The RCP's belief that capitalism was on the point of collapse started to look somewhat unconvincing. And

Sato, perhaps naively, believed

Neither does the British Empire for which Churchill fought with all his heart. And no one believes what they read in the newspapers any more.

The fact that Longo himself was a skilled liar seemed to engender in him an ancillary condition in which he was distrustful of everyone else's honesty.

I can't help feeling sceptical about the Bible's claim that God made man in his own image...He could have achieved that by creating a couple of mirrors; or a closed-circuit television.

We certainly wouldn't want scientists to base anything on science!

What if I told you that we know exactly who shot JFK from the grassy knoll, that the foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor was proven in court, that the CO2 greenhouse effect is scientifically absurd, that our money is created through loans by banks who don't even have the funds, or that science proves with a 100% certainty that 911 was an inside job?

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

faith could only be stretched so far before people demanded an element of proof,

India returned to her kneading, but repeated under her breath, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it!

Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.