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Quotes About Skepticism

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.
~ Kenneth Fisher
I won't just give up anything to anybody because they're waving a gun around.
~ Cam'ron
The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
~ Carl Sagan
I don't have a manager who's secretly on Interscope. I'm the complete opposite of an industry plant.
~ JPEGMAFIA
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
~ Meat Loaf
I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'
~ Judy Blume
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
~ Gore Vidal
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
~ James Russell Lowell
In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
~ Barton Gellman
I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.
~ Lee Strobel
I don't believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I've started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.
~ Erin Brockovich
The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
~ Chris Farley
I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.
~ Jesse Ventura
I actually don't have a lot of faith in comedy.
~ Limmy
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
~ Esther Dyson
People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.
~ Judy Sheindlin
Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.
~ Nguyen Van Thieu
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
~ Bruce Schneier
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
~ Woodrow Wilson
I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.
~ Bob Woodward
We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?
~ Guy Ritchie
When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.
~ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll