Quotes About Skepticism

For a second, I actually wonder if my brother, the saint, might actually be lying.

Maybe this means she believes me. Maybe she trusts me. Or maybe she Lila is just smart enough to know that, given enough rope, eventually, I am bound to hang myself.

Los aliados no van a hacer una mierda por nosotros. Nadie ha hecho nunca nada por nosotros, ya lo sabes.

Es de los demás de los que hay que tener miedo, de los que te dejan adivinar hacia qué lado están mirando. Ésos son los que siempre miran en la dirección contraria a la que tú te imaginas.

La lectura obligada es nefasta. Lean por placer, tengan una profunda sospecha.

The Reformed epistemologist may concur with Calvin in holding that God has implanted in us a natural tendency to see his hand in the world around us; the same cannot be said for the Great Pumpkin, there being no Great Pumpkin and no natural tendency to accept beliefs about the Great Pumpkin.

I did Google him, you know." "Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?

I've trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.

Acaso todavía hay mentes lo bastante ingenuas para pensar que las teorías sirven para ser creídas?

Que una enorme parte de mala fe se mezclara con mi indignación no contradice el fondo de la cuestión

Put je u svakom slucaju trnovit. Vise od dvije trecine veza ne uspiju ga prijeci. Tada se javlja neprijateljstvo, nesporazum, sutnja, katkad i mrznja. Ti se neuspjesi javljaju upravo zbog sumnje koja navodi na to kako se problem ne bi ni pojavio da je to prijateljstvo bilo doista iskreno. To nije tocno. Takva je kriza neizbjezna. Cak i ako zbilja nekog obozavamo, nismo spremni na to da bude s nama.

Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.

Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be redeemed.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.

If a deal advertised on an unknown website looks too good to be true, it almost certainly is.

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

I'm sometimes skeptical about Netflix - for no reason that I can put my finger on - but when you stumble upon a series and it delights you for ten nights in a row, that's a good feeling for a week and a half and a bit.