Quotes About Skepticism

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

Minimifidian (n.) A person who has the bare minimum of faith (in something). To the minimifidian the secret to happiness lies in the doctrine of lowered expectations. Which is not the worst way to go through life; it's hard to be disappointed when you never expect anything. Minionette

Physicist Richard Feynman once said that analysis is how we try not to fool ourselves.129

She didn't believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.

I never thought I'd believe Rob Pattinson as an FBI agent." Gabriel smirks before adding, "Still not sure I do, actually.

happen? That the biggest con of all is telling yourself that it will? How could he tell Craw that saying you were going to do something and then making it happen was, for Jeremy, as unlikely as Craw settling down with a nice girl and breeding like bunnies?

Yeah, here I am, oh mighty ass-reaming sky-daddy! Here I am! Fucking offering my goddamned penance! Prostrating myself before you, and you know the fun thing? The laugh-riot thing? The goddammit all, God's gonna laugh until he pisses on us thing?

What if he bites someone?" "He hardly chews his food.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

People were fascinated by the idea of someone pulling the wool over their eyes.

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Okay, listen, I don't know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn't born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.

One element of French anti-Americanism thus results from an undifferentiated aversion to everything Anglo-Saxon and English in general. With the French it is not so much the kind of skepticism about modernity (money, capitalism, trade, markets) that dominates German resentment of America.

I understand that some people find God after misfortune, although this seems to me even more ridiculous than finding Him in good times. 'God smote me. He must love me.' It's like not wanting a romantic relationship until a member of the opposite sex punches you in the face. My 'miraculous survival' will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short, and paradoxically, far too long.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.