Skeptical Quotes · Page 5

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

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

— Neil Postman

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

— Jared Kushner

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Joseph Brodsky

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

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

— John Garamendi

Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

— Meghann Fahy

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical…

— Lee Strobel

The one thing that you can say about the new Cabinet Donald Trump is putting together. That seems to be one of…

— Geoff Dyer

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

— Errol Morris

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Philip Greenspun

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't…

— Seth Godin

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of…

— Mary Karr

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a…

— Rashida Jones

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

— Dale Jamieson

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you…

— Carl Sagan

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

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

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were…

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That…

— Cheryl Strayed

This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains…

— Norman Macbeth

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science…

— Carl Sagan

I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about…

— Beatrice Miller

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the…

— Anonymous

What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you…

— Michael Steele

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

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

— Nicolas Cage

Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.

— Bozoma Saint John

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

— Kyle Richards

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Angela Ahrendts

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Jonathan Gottschall