Skeptical Quotes
190 quotes by 166 authors
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Great intellects are skeptical.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna…
— Bill Nye
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
— Thucydides
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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
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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
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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
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Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.
— Richard J. Daley
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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
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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
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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
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I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical
— Clifford Geertz
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Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
— Cheryl Strayed
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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
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There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group…
— Charles Duhigg
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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
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When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your…
— Linus Pauling
Who Wrote These Skeptical Quotes
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