Skeptical Quotes · Page 2

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical,

— Mark Strand

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

— Evangeline Lilly

“that skeptical look upon his face as he studies”

— Selena Kitt

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

— Warren Christopher

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

— Rupert Sheldrake

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

— John Garamendi

I know politics makes people skeptical.

— Marty Walsh

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

— Jessica Livingston

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

— Thucydides

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

— Philip Greenspun

People do tend to be extremely skeptical, especially of YouTubers - and rightly so.

— Lindsay Ellis

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

— Carl Sagan

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

— Edward Snowden

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

— Anonymous

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

— Joel Edgerton

We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We…

— Paul Kurtz

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a…

— Art Alexakis

If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at…

— Christopher Hitchens

Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have…

— Hank Johnson

“tried to keep my cool. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if…

— Ernest Cline

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis…

— Stuart L. Pimm

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one…

— Dallas Willard

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war,…

— Garry Kasparov

I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole…

— Julian Baggini

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself…

— Michael Shermer

I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We…

— Miesha Tate

Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning…

— John Medina

People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that…

— Eugene Fama

It was so enticing from the beginning to be this woman who was entrenched in The Flash's world. She's not there to…

— Danielle Panabaker

So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the…

— Martin Walker

I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco…

— Francisco Goldman

Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain,…

— Rebecca Walker

Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a…

— H. G. Wells

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

— Lilian Jackson Braun

People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.

— Jared Kushner

It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe.

— Charles Michael Davis

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”

— Anatole France

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

— Dale Jamieson