Skeptical Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Clarity, Wilderness, Feels

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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 join the battle.

  R. C. Sproul

  Cynical, Battle, Cynicism

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• Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?

  Bill Gross

  Wall, Long, Bankers

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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 the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Past, Men, Decision

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.559, Transaction Publishers

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• The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Culture, Fields

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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• I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Math, Views, Engineering

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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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 for religious reverence rather than skeptical empiricism as a response to life's meaning.

  David Foster Wallace

  Religious, Powerful, Connections

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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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 will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

  Charles Duhigg

  Powerful, People, Community

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

  Thucydides

  Luck, Reason, Modern

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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

  Structure, Agree, Innate

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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

  Want, Way, Right Way

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• The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

  Bergen Evans

  Men, Humanity, Religion

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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 surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

  Bernard Haisch

  Cutting, Examination, Information

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• Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly....As a scientist I remain skeptical.

  Joanne Simpson

  Organization, Receiving, Global Warming

  "Buying the Vacant Illinois Senate Seat?" by Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2008.

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• Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

  Michael Shermer

  Environmental, Opinion, Global Warming

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• 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

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

  Carles Puyol

  Parent, Becoming, Study

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• I do worry about the press and a President Trump. You know, I think it's dangerous the entire de-legitimization that he's engaged in against all of the media because the people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they do need us. You know, they need good, strong skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is, whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

  Megyn Kelly

  Strong, Fun, Hate

  Source: www.npr.org

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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. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Believe, Publishing House, Ideas

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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, which demands hardly anything.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, World, Demand

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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 work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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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 true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.

  Ken Ham

  School, Sunday, Stories

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• 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

  Fall, People, Track

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• In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.

  Rashida Jones

  Father, Nice, Thinking

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

  Daniel Levitin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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