Skeptical Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Adam Savage

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Stay Curious with Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters". Interview with Jenny Williams, www.wired.com. October 5, 2009.

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• I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

  Mason Cooley

  Practice, Principles, Gullible

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• I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Skepticism, My Own

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1990). “The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts”, p.142, Penguin

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• I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

  Tim Heidecker

  Entertainment, Not Trusting, Models

  "Tim Heidecker on youth, Louis C.K. and why 'The Comedy' is 'grotesque'". Interview with Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. November 15, 2012.

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• There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S. . .

  Jeremy Grantham

  Pain, Thinking, Financial

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

  Lee Strobel

  Community, Important, Church

  "Lee Strobel: We're on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. January 22, 2012.

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• When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

  Conan O'Brien

  Visionaries, Financial, Republican

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• Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Emotional, Views, Intellectual

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

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• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  Walter Gilbert

  Moving, Views, Community

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• So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.

  Martin Walker

  Country, Banking Crisis, Europe

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• If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

  Alan Greenspan

  Financial, Problem, Said

  "Markets remain steady" by Fiona Walsh, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• Markets will always move ahead of the news.

  Joseph Granville

  Moving, News, Financial

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

  Richard M. Nixon

  Honesty, Trying, May

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• In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Weight, Way

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• The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

  Jim Rogers

  Bail, Bears, Financial

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• My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

  Mae Whitman

  Cute, Mom, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

  Mark Strand

  Heaven, Mets, Havens

  "Mark Strand, former US poet laureate, dies aged 80". www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2014.

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Depressing, Retirement, Real

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• Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that 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 make us rubbery and easy to shape.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Fiction, Stories

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• I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving, Financial, Judgment

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• It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gambling, Casinos, Financial

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

  George Meany

  Experts, Financial, Economics

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trust

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• 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

  Mountain, Tvs, Three

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.

  James Hansen

  Ocean, Views, Weather

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