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Quotes About Skepticism

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
The bullshit detector is the biggest enemyof every religion."From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"('Scourges of an imaginary god')
~ A.J. Beirens
I'm not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don't have a good story behind it, I'm just reasonable.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
~ Tacitus
When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.
~ Emmy Rossum
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.
~ Candace Bushnell
If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.
~ Ron Weber
They say if it's too good to be true, it usually is..... Unless it's me.
~ Behdad Sami
Sometimes things seem too good to be true.
~ Keke Palmer
Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.
~ Roy Orbison
I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.
~ Roseanne Barr
For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.
~ Jeff Jarrett
You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.
~ Gavin Schmidt
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
~ Rob Pike
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
~ Lord Byron
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
~ Henry Adams
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
~ Thucydides
I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
~ Keith Richards
I never trusted good-looking boys.
~ Frances McDormand
If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
~ Francois Rabelais
Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?
~ Jim Dodge
The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.
~ Chuck Hogan