Skeptical Quotes · Page 3

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

— Dale Jamieson

It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

— Richard Quest

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

— William Lyon Phelps

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

— George Bernard Shaw

I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Laverne Cox

My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

— Jake Tapper

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

— William Macneile Dixon

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

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from…

— Linda Chavez

There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“His skeptical silence made me shift uncomfortably. I felt like Aladdin, holding his hand out to Jasmine on the magic carpet. A…

— Nenia Campbell

I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's…

— Candy Crowley

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads.…

— Mordecai Richler

We'll fund a project even if I'm skeptical because I'd rather be proven wrong by somebody on the inside than by somebody…

— Edwin Catmull

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 very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in…

— Amartya Sen

I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was…

— Cheryl Strayed

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

“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

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

— Ken Ham

Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,…

— Phillip Lopate

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

— Sarah Vowell

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

— Clifford Geertz

“Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

— Stephen Chbosky

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

— Dan Brown

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.

— Sylvia Plath

For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!

— Angela Ahrendts

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

— Jodi Picoult

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

— Bernard Haisch

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

— Robert A. Heinlein

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

— Michael Shermer

Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

— T.I

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

— Neil Postman

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

— Bill O'Reilly