Skeptical Quotes

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

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

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.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts: "I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people."

I'm having a hard time finding a date. I don't trust any women I meet. I'm very skeptical.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

Everybodys saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

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.

It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.

Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

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

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

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us. That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.

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

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

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.

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

I believe I'm growing skeptical of cynicism.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

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.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

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

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.

The one thing that you can say about the new Cabinet Donald Trump is putting together. That seems to be one of the coherent themes. They're very, very skeptical about Iran.

There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

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

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

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

I'm not a very skeptical person.

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

Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them

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