Quotes About Skepticism

Don't read everything on the internet as true, as it might not be.

and in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

En términos generales, tres son los grupos en que se podría dividir el público lector de periódicos: 1°. Los crédulos, que admiten todo lo que leen. 2°. Aquellos que ya no creen nada. 3°. Los espíritus críticos, que analizan lo leído y saben juzgar.

One has good grounds to be suspicious of any new idea, any doctrine, any new worldview, or any political or economical movement, that tries to deny everything that the past has produced, or to present it as inferior and worthless... Any renovation that's truly beneficial to human progress will always have to begin its constructive work where the last stones have been laid.

in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it all around the country, but it comes down to the same thing: this inherent mistrust of authority, and trying to topple people off a pedestal.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that.

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis.

Niekas taip neskatina žmogaus veikti, kaip troškimas nustebinti tuos, kurie juo abejoja.

With a grain of salt.

Psychics are like porno stars," I said. "Anybody can be one.

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

you always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.

God save me from those I trust in.

Hard to imagine, but . . . well, we have so many bureaucrats, so many people in high places like Lord Hauksberg who insists the enemy doesn't really mean harm