Quotes About Skepticism

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Francia don't look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

Siempre hay que escuchar con escepticismo la justificación de los hombres que matan

That's a load of crap!" Conor shouted. "He didn't need to kill her. The people were behind him. They would have followed him anyway." The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. And so the injustice that I saw, the reason that I came walking, was for the queen, not the prince.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed centre, so you can never believe them.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism,

Distrust turns quickly to dislike.

No te creas todas las historias que te cuenten, Bast. Las historias mienten.

Solo un necio desconfía de lo que ve con sus propios ojos.

I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I'm telling the perfect truth. Regardless

Denna lifted her glass in a salute. "To the gullibility of the well-educated.

just another piece of needless God-bothering that wasn't working properly.

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Sometimes it's not worth questioning authority because it usually won't know the answer.

I don't know nothing about looking a gift horse in the mouth or anywhere else. I mean, who gives a horse as a gift anyhow? Unless it's just the head of course.

Or don't you trust me?" "I work in Hell, Jones, I don't trust anyone except myself and I keep a close eye on my shadow. Possession

Question everything.

He who fails to question is asking for trouble.

The world wasn't real anymore. Everything in it was a fraudulent copy of what it should have been, and everything that happened in it shouldn't have been happening. For a long time afterward, Ferguson lived under the spell of this illusion, sleepwalking through his days and struggling to fall asleep at night, sick of a world he had stopped believing in, doubting everything that presented itself to his eyes.

No, there is nothing people will not do, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you will be.

He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the United States fought World War II to rescue the Jews and keep the world safe for democracy, that Jesus and the double feature are coming back. But I'm no Panglossian American.

The fifth chapter is about evil, looking skeptically at the view that lack of empathy makes people worse. The final chapter steps back to defend human rationality, arguing that we really do have the capacity to use reasoned deliberation to make it through the world. We live in an age of reason.

But I also think that, as David Hume put it, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." And this is truly an extraordinary claim.