Quotes About Skepticism

As he talked, I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong about the guy." Put him with someone like Anna Gunderson, a nice woman who has suffered a great tragedy, and his empathetic side came out. And then I realized he was faking it.

Are you sure about that? Corey muttered once the were gone. Chloe is nice enough, but that Derek? Real charmer. If anyone busts through that door, he's liable to throw us to them as cannon fodder. I wasn't sure I disagreed.

Sorry," I said, hurrying over to him. "Are you--?" As I bent, he tried to snag my leg and yank me down, but I danced back out of reach. "Did you really think I'd fall for that?" I said. "Hoping.

She barreled down the steps toward us, and gave me a passing lick before jumping on Rafe. He pushed her down, laughing. "See, I am real," he said. "Hmm, still not sure," I said. "Dogs are supposed to be able to see ghosts, you know.

And, having won thirty minutes of your time, I think I just gave you thirty minutes of reasons to run the other way as fast as you can.

No matter how long she argued, people would believe the priests, not

Le monde du pouvoir, des biens terrestres exigeait qu'un homme fût méfiant, exigeant et insistant

Y recuerden: aunque el presidente les diga que llueve y parezca muy, muy sincero, miren por la ventana… solo para asegurarse».

Caris ne plaçait pas grande confiance dans les pouvoirs des os d'un saint mort depuis belle lurette pour guérir un homme dont la tête avait été fracassée aujourd'hui, mais elle s'abstint de le montrer, naturellement. Elle ne partageait pas les vues du commun des mortels. Le sachant, elle gardait les siennes par-devers elle. Enfin, le plus souvent.

The boys despised everything their elders valued. They scorned beauty and mocked goodness.

you should never believe a politician with simple answers.

No sentía simpatía por los profesionales de Dios

Most of all, she thought bitterly, she had learned that love is not to be trusted. She

He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

He could never care about you. He sees you in the same way they see all of us: ruthless, cruel and power hungry." He laughed callously. "I guess we're about to prove them right.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.