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Quotes About Skepticism

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.
~ H. L. Mencken
After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
~ H. L. Mencken
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
~ Holly Black
What, eBay isn't good enough for us?
~ James Patterson
People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?
~ Julie Delpy
It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.
~ Juno Temple
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.
~ Terry Pratchett
People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.
~ Alex Jones
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.
~ Michael O'Donoghue
We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
~ Merle Haggard
I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'
~ George Carlin
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
~ Taylor Caldwell
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
~ Amitav Ghosh
No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
~ L. Neil Smith
I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.
~ Jeri Ryan
We have gold because we cannot trust governments
~ Herbert Hoover
Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
~ James Hansen
No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.
~ George Will
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
~ William James
An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan