Skeptical Quotes

We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.

— Bertrand Russell

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

— David Byrne

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.

— Richard J. Daley

Markets will always move ahead of the news.

— Joseph Granville

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

— Jeff Bezos

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

— Mason Cooley

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

— Epicurus

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

— Epicurus

I saw the 'Balls of Fury' script, and I was skeptical at first.

— Dan Fogler

“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

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

— Nick Cave

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Joel Edgerton

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

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Mark Strand

The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy.

— Henry Hyde

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

— Richard Quest

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

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it…

— James Gleick

Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly…As a scientist I remain…

— Joanne Simpson

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

— Thomas S. Monson

Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will…

— Rich Lowry

I think I was raised by a very humble mother, who, if anything, is probably over skeptical. She has that sense of…

— Lara Pulver

Be skeptical, but not as a social position, not claiming to be so intelligent that you cannot believe what other people say.…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try…

— Seth Shostak

I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still…

— Michael Grimm

The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the…

— Charles Spurgeon

“I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone…

— Martine Millman

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in…

— Tom Peters

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“... There is a publication classification in an upper corner. It reads Religion. I'm immediately skeptical because I've always group books such…

— James Frey

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

— Phillip Lopate

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand…

— Alain de Botton

“Science’s skeptical core makes it a poor competitor for human hearts and minds, which recoil from its ongoing controversies and prefer the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those…

— Richard Wright