Skeptical Quotes - Page 9

• As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Social Values, Government, 80s And 90s

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Ideas, Leader

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The best way to stay away from They is really simple. Stay with the people who have some passion. Stay with the people who know the truth. I like to find the They and turn them into We. I like to take the Theys and herd them. People that are skeptical, the Theys, I can bring them to We as much as I can.

  Tony Robbins

  Passion, Simple, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Self, Mind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force.

  Karan Bajaj

  Karma, Yoga, Book

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Boys, College, Thinking

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• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Writing, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Made

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• 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

  Christian, Heaven, Lost Everything

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• unlike other countries, we're not skeptical at all when it comes to EU expansion. In fact, we are in favor of admitting Ukraine and Turkey. In this sense, one can hardly say that we are focusing unilaterally on our own national interests. Austria, for example, has held up the negotiations for Turkey's admission to the EU. Why am I against deeper involvement in the EU? There are several reasons for that.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Turkeys, Ukraine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.

  James Shikwati

  Political, Disease, Aids

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.

  Miesha Tate

  Fighting, Thinking, Years

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• 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.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Errors, Views

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Responsibility, Global Warming, Scientist

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• Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don't conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything - new ideas and established wisdom.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Ideas, Balance

  "Why We Need To Understand Science" by Carl Sagan, The Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Sometimes

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• We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Skepticism

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• I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

  Salman Rushdie

  Islam, Culture, Weapons

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Being skeptical is part of my job, to question every amazing achievement. That's always there. But I am also capable of turning down the cynicism. The basic idea of sports, the fairness, the competition, remains a beautiful thing.

  Travis Tygart

  Beautiful, Sports, Achievement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

  Neil Postman

  Mind, Use, Reason

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.164, Vintage

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• I was raised by ex-hippies, but I grew up worshipping a television set. I am skeptical of a lot of things, but I was on Myspace and Friendster, and I have a fascination with the new. My wife and I met on Facebook!

  James Ponsoldt

  Wife, My Wife

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Mean, Ideas

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• What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, People, Historical

  Source: inters.org

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• I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.

  Tony Campolo

  Television, Firsts, Healer

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• 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

  Important, Labels, Hearing

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

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