Quotes About Skepticism

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.

One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

I think a lot of parents who are smart, well-read - they're the ones who are choosing not to vaccinate. And oftentimes, those who may not be as well-read - they are vaccinating. So to say you just have a bunch of crackpots who are choosing not to do this to their children, I just don't think that's actually true.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us. You can't believe modern science, modern media or modern political institutions because they're all conspiring against Christians.'

There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.

I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

I remember one episode trying to be really gassed about The Darkness and thinking, 'This just feels really forced.'

I will not go on a blind date.

I am a daylight atheist.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Do not be deceived by impostors.

The Internet can be deceiving. Don't believe everything your read. Or you see.

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.