Skeptical Quotes · Page 9

“Leofgifu was skeptical, but then she always was with men. None of them could be trusted; they covered you in kisses and…

— Helen Hollick

So if we cover [Donald Trump] the same way, let's say "The Kelly File," we cover him the same way we cover…

— Megyn Kelly

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

— Laverne Cox

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's…

— James Comey

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

— Carl Sagan

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment…

— Walter Gilbert

Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I…

— James Moore

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right…

— Sandra Bullock

Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently.…

— Pete Hegseth

In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not…

— Dale Jamieson

“The author has endeavored to combat their theory in the manner in which Diogenes confuted the skeptical reasonings against the possibility of…

— John Stuart Mill

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little…

— Frank Abagnale

If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might…

— Barack Obama

There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves,…

— Charles Duhigg

Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingl y on the Word of God, knew how to defend the…

— Ken Ham

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and…

— Steven Pinker

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

— H. R. McMaster

The brand new user interfaces that Nintendo invented often faced skeptical views before a hardware launch but wound up becoming de facto…

— Satoru Iwata

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

— Terence McKenna

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and…

— Jessica Biel

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

— Ben Casnocha

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a…

— Jonathan Shapiro

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and…

— Anonymous

Like all Americans, I am skeptical when any government agency pries into our personal and private lives under the guise of rooting…

— Nancy Mace

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand…

— Bear Grylls

o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early…

— Rebecca Hamilton

Over the years, I paid careful attention in client meetings and jotted down things that quite didn't make sense. And I had…

— Cathy Engelbert

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as…

— Alfred Nobel

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must…

— Hayao Miyazaki

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

— Alan Dershowitz

There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the…

— Jeremy Grantham

It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities…

— Paul Allen

I don't respond to skepticism because they not gonna be skeptical for long. My life right now is like a TV show;…

— Soulja Boy

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

— Cheryl Strayed

I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was…

— Barney Frank

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything…

— Rajneesh

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he…

— William Osler