Quotes About Skepticism

We are far more likely to lose our life savings to an oily-tongued swindler than our lives to a steely-eyed killer.

Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasn't convinced.

No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.

Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.

JUDGMENT Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

who can you trust?

Remember: The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.

On the internet, it is easy to find studies that support both sides of an argument. In general, you should never accept the validity of people's ideas because they have supplied "evidence." Instead, examine the evidence yourself in the cold light of day, with as much skepticism as you can muster. Your first impulse should always be to find the evidence that disconfirms your most cherished beliefs and those of others. That is true science.

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.

You don't believe in love?" Connor grimaced as if he'd been poked with a spear. Oh, he believed in love all right. Love was a bitch.

But in an age of intelligence, when the keys of science have unlocked the sacred shrines and hallowed vaults of sacerdotal mysteries, and modern researches of history have laid bare the fact that most ancient religious countries abound in reports of this character, a profound and general skepticism must be the result, and a total rejection of their truth by all men of science and historic intelligence.

You never really know. Lately Kevin has been bothering himself with the idea that nothing is certain, nothing can be proven. Not one thing, not in all the world. The sun will rise tomorrow. Prove it. The sun rose this morning. Prove it. The sun is in the sky. Prove it. There's a sun at all. Prove it. The world is like a box of Kleenex, every doubt pulling another along behind it. You can always find a new reason to distrust the facts.

They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

the thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too.

I mean, they're not actually going to murder you. Right?

Trent gave me a weary look. "Always seeing the best in a person, Ms. Morgan?" "Yeah. Except with you."

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

but this time around, she had tried to be more trusting. She'd told herself that being paranoid, skeptical, and insecure wasn't good, and that maybe Tim really did love her as much as he said he did. She had also decided that he didn't seem like the kind of man who would be unfaithful, not with his regularly talking

The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.

Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted.

You think I should use magick like mine to open a tomb? Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here. That'd be like calling you in to lift a feather.

Lothaire rolled his eyes. "Mothman. Really, Elizabeth? Really?

Uh-huh," she said. He was beginning to recognize that was her way of indicating untruth.