Quotes About Skepticism

The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters." JFK

If they thought we were a bunch of crazies, why did they drive us to the limit?

Even if you totally believe in something, there's always an element of doubt.

Otherwise, everything I'd ever felt about this great country was a crock of shit.

Siempre he sospechado que la amistad está sobrevalorada. Como los estudios universitarios, la muerte y las pollas largas.

We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call "magical reason"—pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor.

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.

We don't feel like that's a good faith offer, because it seems more like you're just trying to save money on cockroaches.

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization

If you've actually seen a ghost—and I assure you that you probably have, within the last month—it would have just looked like any real, solid person. It's likely nobody saw that person but you and no, you can't photograph them. You're not seeing them with your eyes.

She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like.

Falconer walked up and said, "I just want to say right now that this is the stupidest shit I've ever been involved in.

Something was off, I knew right then. Lingering in the back of my mind, like a kid in the last row of the classroom with his hand up.

If somebody comes on TV and says everything is great and wonderful, you don't believe it, you say they're blowing smoke up your butt. You demand proof. But if one second later, some guy comes on and says everything is falling apart, you automatically believe it, no questions asked.

The case of medicine is, at first sight, rather more intractable than that of astrology, for it is hard to disprove astrology: one would need to compare the lives of a group of people all born at the same moment.

he thought that human beings are, by and large, rather nasty. They can rarely be bothered to help one another, he noted, but are quick to seize any opportunity to do each other down.9 Moreover there was a bias in the world of which he had become acutely aware: most people were ignorant, and nothing provoked the hostility of the ignorant as much as people who knew more than they did.10 Although

What I'am learning is the world laughs through its ass every day, then just lies double-time when shit goes down. It's like we're on a Pritikin diet of fucken lies. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle

atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

Nowhilism: a rejection of the progress made in the past and ignorance of reality in the present

Riley had no doubt that an "immediate and merciful act of the Almighty" had saved them from the surf at Bojador. According to him, all of his men believed this too. Later, when a friend advised him to play down this conviction, because skeptics would use it to discredit the rest of his account of the voyage, Riley refused.

Massa was also where British merchant James Grey Jackson once saw a pair of colossal whale jawbones arching up from the sand. A local informed him that they had always been there and that, when the whale had beached, a man named Jonah had emerged from it's belly. Jackson laughed at the tale. His earnest informant responded only that 'nobody but a Christian would doubt the fact.

Elijah's wearing white shorts and a bright green shirt and plaid sneakers. People who dress like they're in a perfume ad shouldn't be trusted, in my opinion. They're disingenuous with floral overtones.

Accept nothing. Challenge everything.