Dorothy Allison Quotes

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I'm a natural born skeptic.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."