Skeptical Quotes - Page 11

• At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Hurt, Hate, Fighting

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• I don't need a receipt for a doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction! We don't need to bring ink and paper into this! I can't imagine a scenario where I'd have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend...'Don't even act like I didn't buy that doughnut! I've got the documentation right here! Oh, wait, it's back home, in the file. Under d...for doughnut.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• 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

  Believe, Tabloids, Legends

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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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• Everyone is skeptical. Only the media are not skeptical, but, then, they were also not skeptical when the administration put out the line that coordinated embassy attacks around the globe on the anniversary of 9/11 were just rowdy movie reviews. Numbers on a TV screen won't prevent millions of Americans from noticing that they're unemployed.

  Ann Coulter

  Numbers, Media, Lines

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• Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

  Ben Casnocha

  Thumbs

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• I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to make sure that you're doing so in the spirit of genuinely wanting to find the answers - and that also means being open. I battle with this: I know I tend to be very skeptical and as a result, I veer towards the dismissive. But being aware of the tendency, I like to challenge my own skepticism and make sure it's not just knee-jerk. You need to be skeptical towards yourself as well. When you're only skeptical outwards you've got an unbalanced skepticism.

  Julian Baggini

  Mean, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.3ammagazine.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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• 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'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.

  Jason Brennan

  Strong, School, Successful

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, People, Mind

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have made; more willing, in some cases, to entertain the possibility of getting along with countries who some would call an adversary, such as Mr. Putin's Russia.

  Richard N. Haass

  Country, America, Russia

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Dale Jamieson

  Smart, Unbiased, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not evolve in order to do. This doesn't mean that it can't be done or that we shouldn't try to expand the reach of our ethical frameworks, only that there are reasons to be skeptical about its success.

  Dale Jamieson

  Mean, Order, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Data, People, Algorithms

  Source: www.salon.com

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• So if we cover [Donald Trump] the same way, let's say "The Kelly File," we cover him the same way we cover Barack Obama, the same amount, the same skeptical eye, he's going to be fine with that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Eye, Way, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.

  Tom Peters

  Important, Entering, May

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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

  Edward Snowden

  Administration, Barack, Has Beens

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• It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mistake, Home, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

  Michelle Singletary

  Home, School, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

  Mohsin Hamid

  People, Want, Limits

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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