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Quotes About Skepticism

People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'
~ Emo Philips
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
~ George Carlin
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~ H. L. Mencken
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.
~ Tommy Cooper
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?
~ George Carlin
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
~ John Updike
All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.
~ Steven Wright
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
~ Lewis Black
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
i find nothing more depressing than optimism.
~ Paul Fussell
Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.
~ Lewis Black
An honest politician is an oxymoron.
~ Mark Twain
You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.
~ Warren Buffett
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.
~ Edward Teller
It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.
~ George Carlin
I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
~ Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
~ George Mikes
I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.
~ Denis Leary
The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.
~ Jack Paar
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
~ George Carlin
Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,
~ Woody Allen