Skeptical Quotes

190 quotes by 166 authors

Great intellects are skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is â€œyouâ€™re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everythingâ€™s screwed up, nothingâ€™s ever gonna… — Bill Nye
I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way. — Sandra Bullock
If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in… — Carl Sagan
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave… — Edmund Burke
I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And… — Katharine Graham
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes — Thucydides
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument… — David Foster Wallace
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not… — Bernard Haisch
I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of… — Harry S. Truman
Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party. — Richard J. Daley
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like.… — Fredrik Bajer
Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are… — Joseph J. Romm
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,… — E F Schumacher
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical — Clifford Geertz
Of all the things Iâ€™d been skeptical about, I didnâ€™t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me. — Cheryl Strayed
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and… — R C Sproul
Thereâ€™s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if theyâ€™re by themselves, but a group… — Charles Duhigg
One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is… — Ken Ham
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect â€” but do not believe him. Never put your… — Linus Pauling

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