Skeptical Quotes · Page 10

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

— Mason Cooley

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

— Kyle Richards

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

— Nicolas Cage

I'm very skeptical about everything. That's how I've always been.

— Denzel Curry

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

— Jonathan Gottschall

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

— Richard Dawkins

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with…

— David I. Rozenberg

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman…

— Pete Coors

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he…

— Alan Greenspan

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith…

— Simon Schama

“To fight for greater things is the essence of our humanity. Therefore, to fall to the skepticism of those for whom the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about…

— Vladimir Putin

I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in.…

— David Icke

It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all…

— Buzz Aldrin

“I was also skeptical about what all the grunge bands would do on their second albums. There were a lot of great…

— Paul Stanley

“Perhaps you are still skeptical. Well then, what about you? No doubt there have been moments when your life has taken a…

— Amor Towles

I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think…

— Joe Eszterhas

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

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

— Steven Pinker

I like the idea of reincarnation. I'm not a true believer, but I think the idea is beautiful, that life just doesn't…

— Vanessa Paradis

A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to…

— Karan Bajaj

Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,…

— Julian Sanchez

“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all…

— Carl Sagan

“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli 's, at first we would be inclined…

— Werner Heisenberg

“...I believe there is a legitimate aim of transcendence that is more modest and perhaps more realistic. We may not be able…

— Thomas Nagel

“[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.”

— Joseph Brodsky

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

— Cathy O'Neil

“Frankly, the whole concept was a little too New Age—y for me.”

— Kristen Roupenian

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest…

— Peter Kreeft

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you…

— Yancy Butler

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends…

— Bergen Evans

I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education… People are on these tracks. They are getting these…

— Peter Thiel

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of…

— Jamie Dornan

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global…

— Buzz Aldrin

AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on…

— James Shikwati

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college…

— Elbert Hubbard