Top 100 Quotes About Skeptical
#1. I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.
Nicolas Cage
#2. But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It's like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, 'only the paranoid survive.
David Kirkpatrick
#3. Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove "my friend" before offering to sell him a watch.
Fredrik Backman
#4. If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I'm not opposed, I'm very highly skeptical and critical of it.
Christopher Hitchens
#5. The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.
Mark Danner
#7. They thought it was essential to remain skeptical of all inherited truths, the idea being that the individual must find his own answer to every question.
Jostein Gaarder
#8. If you are innately skeptical of other people's motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.
Marcus Buckingham
#9. Wait a minute," Sandra said, sounding skeptical. "You were really stuck?"
Things were starting to get worse.
Her mouth dropped open and she began to laugh - the kind of laugh that would have been music to his ears if she were laughing with him and not at him.
Things were definitely worse.
Jennifer Shirk
#10. I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still out on it. We see nothing but conflicting reports from across the globe. I'm not sure; I'm not a scientist.
Michael Grimm
#11. It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
Darius Rucker
#12. I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.
Laverne Cox
#13. The fact that salt is a powerful emetic as well as a potent laxative should convince the most skeptical that it is not meant to form an important part of the human diet.
John H. Tobe
#14. His skeptical silence made me shift uncomfortably. I felt like Aladdin, holding his hand out to Jasmine on the magic carpet. A ridiculous comparison under the given circumstances, and yet oddly apt.
Nenia Campbell
#15. Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.
Sherry Turkle
#16. be skeptical of any nutritional claims; they are unlikely to be from randomized trials and may soon be proved wrong.
Vinayak K. Prasad
#17. A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
John Coleman
#18. Steve Jobs just made a product. He started off where a lot of people were skeptical of what he was doing, and he basically just focused on the product and making it the best he could, and really focused on what it was that these products would take into your lives.
Joshua Michael Stern
#19. If I can't even accurately judge the people closest to me, then I can't trust anyone. Ever. I hate them for taking that away from me. Now, no matter who comes into my life after this, I'll always be skeptical.
Colleen Hoover
#20. I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.
Max Barry
#21. [T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.
Joseph Brodsky
#22. We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?
Pope Francis
#23. After all, to the truly skeptical mind, diabolic forces are just as reasonable building blocks for the cosmos as mindless electrons. No possibility, however seemingly fantastic, should revolt the truly skeptical mind.
Fritz Leiber
#24. Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
Michael Shermer
#25. I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.
Rajneesh
#26. Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.
Carl Sagan
#27. In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#28. I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education ... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.
Peter Thiel
#30. 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 will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
Charles Duhigg
#31. Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.
Alex Pareene
#32. I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.
Philip Greenspun
#33. I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.
Justin Kirk
#34. I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
Richard Dawkins
#36. Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.
Norm MacDonald
#37. Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
Jodi Picoult
#38. I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.
John Garamendi
#39. I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.
Jessica Biel
#40. I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn't believe me.
C.E. Murphy
#42. I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
David Horsey
#43. I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Jack Vance
#44. Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
Thucydides
#45. When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.
Bob Kerrey
#46. We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
Dallas Willard
#47. Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.
Peter Kreeft
#48. I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke
#49. Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
Nick Cave
#50. The true skeptic is skeptical even about skepticism.
Marty Rubin
#51. He spoke loudly, declaring his ambitions and opinions with a frankness that might be called hubristic (if one was skeptical) or dauntless (if one was not).
Eleanor Catton
#53. O this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.
Rebecca Hamilton
#54. The American Revolution was to succeed because it was undertaken by skeptical men who knew that the same passions that toppled tyrannies could be applied to destructive ends.
Ron Chernow
#55. Wolfram," Dan mused, a far-off look in his eye. "I've heard of that from somewhere." Amy was skeptical. "Are you sure you're not thinking of Wolfgang?
Gordon Korman
#56. Always be skeptical of what you learn from experience.
Marty Rubin
#57. Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe science. I think it is possible to invert that idea, and to say that the wonders of real consciousness far surpass what conventional science admits can exist.
Michael Crichton
#58. Listen, girlie," said one of the executives of Cadillac, a particularly troubled company, to Maryann Keller, an astute and skeptical financial analyst on Wall Street, "it's ready to turn around, and it's going to be bigger than ever.
David Halberstam
#59. The couple had lunch the next day and then went to the White Cube, a modern art gallery, and then back to Musk's hotel room. Musk told Riley, a virgin, that he wanted to show her his rockets. "I was skeptical, but he did actually show me rocket videos,
Ashlee Vance
#60. Most skeptics aren't really skeptics at all. To be truly skeptical, one must actually examine something, and take it seriously.
Eben Alexander
#61. As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.
Josh Fox
#62. I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
Dan Brown
#63. I realize that some of you may be skeptical about the idea of reincarnation, but there's a lot of evidence that it's real. Exhibit A is Vice President Al Gore, who obviously, at some point in his previous existence, was a slab of Formica.
Dave Barry
#64. I don't think people are skeptical. I think people appreciate the authenticity, actually. I think people are looking for authentic leaders these days and being yourself.
Mark T Bertolini
#65. 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
#66. Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing
Anthony Jones
#67. It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.
Megan Chance
#68. No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.
Sam Harris
#69. I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.
Bear Grylls
#70. How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing ... If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything ...
Blaise Pascal
#71. We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.
Susan Sontag
#72. People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
Penn Jillette
#73. Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.
David Maraniss
#74. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.
Ernest Cline
#75. The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
Bergen Evans
#76. As skeptical as I was about the reincarnation hypothesis, part of me wanted it to be true. If the people we loved came back to us, then all the tragedy in life might somehow be a little easier to accept.
Lisa Manterfield
#77. When we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to leave us defenseless.
Jonathan Gottschall
#78. Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.
Benjamin Disraeli
#79. Science depends on organized skepticism, that is, on continual, methodical doubting. Few of us doubt our own conclusions, so science embraces its skeptical approach by rewarding those who doubt someone else's.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#80. I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
Clifford Geertz
#81. A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
Stanley Kubrick
#82. Being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.
Lemony Snicket
#85. ... the owl is skeptical of her possessions. She understands that in many circumstances, power can be measured not by what she has, but by what she is able to do without.
Frank Rivers
#86. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
Carl Sagan
#87. I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
Jeff Bezos
#88. In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
J.D. Greear
#89. The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the problem of building complex systems that are reliable and that work, and that problem has long predated the problem of access to encryption keys.
Matt Blaze
#90. Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.
Bill O'Reilly
#91. Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more.
And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too
Chris Bohjalian
#92. He's good in bed, too?" Marnie asked, clearly skeptical. "That just isn't fair. If I looked like him, I'd
never leave my house. I'd just stay home and fuck myself. If you tell me he has a big dick, I might become either a cutter or a lesbian.
R.K. Lilley
#93. I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying.
Martine Millman
#94. I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.
Sigourney Weaver
#95. The climate change denial movement - far from an organic convergence of "skeptical" scientists - is entirely a creature of the ideological network on display here, the very one that deserves the bulk of the credit for redrawing the global ideological map over the last four decades.
Naomi Klein
#96. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
#97. Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever ...
Pope Benedict XVI
#98. People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.
Joel Osteen
#99. 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 join the battle.
R.C. Sproul
#100. It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations
Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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