skeptical mindset Quotes

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!