Skeptical Quotes - Page 12

• The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

  Frank Abagnale

  People, Police, Identity

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• I'm not a very skeptical person.

  John Malkovich

  Persons

  Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. November 15, 2007.

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• 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.

  Seth Godin

  Culture, Pessimistic, Thanks

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• I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

  Joel Osteen

  Children, Blessed, People

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• We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

  Dallas Willard

  Stupid, Believe, Ideas

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• The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

  Sarah Vowell

  Government, Definitions, Patriot

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Men, Wisest Man

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• Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

  Warren Buffett

  Looks, Esoteric, Geek

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• When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier.
  Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Deep Thought, Levels

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• There's a bigger question again about how to do prevention. It's not simply about putting out the early warning. The early warning was put out on Abyei; everybody knew that this was coming. This was intentional, and still it happened. So this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of. I think it's about how you move that information into the policy process.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul mates in the past, but at that moment, I knew it was true. And the emotional connection had come a physical one. Dimitri and I had finally given in to the attraction. We'd sworn we never would, but... well, our feelings were just too strong. Staying away from each other had turned out to be impossible. ~Rose, Pg.74

  Richelle Mead

  Strong, Emotional, Past

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy”, p.57, Penguin UK

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

  Ishmael Reed

  Movement, Sixty

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.

  David Icke

  Believe, Reality, Understanding

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• I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Real, Thinking, Objectivity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Ideas, Needs, Warning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  David Maraniss

  Beautiful, Optimistic, Mean

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.

  Mark Danner

  Democracy, Use, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.

  Rich Lowry

  Oil, Hawks, Hearing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Challenges, Lasts

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.

  Darcy Tucker

  Wise, Opportunity, Different

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• Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.

  Daniel Yankelovich

  Country, Views, People

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• I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special expertise. After all, all people - not just philosophers - have attitudes and points of view on various philosophical questions, and they rather resent being told that there are professionals who can think about these things better.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Attitude, Philosophical, Insecure

  "Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking down everything I'm saying because you think I'm such a marvelous fellow but because your editors say go get 1,200 words or whatever on Chuck Heston.

  Charlton Heston

  Eye, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

  Nicolas Cage

  Possibility, Percent

  "Nicolas Cage Is '2 Percent Open' to the Existence of Ghosts" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. September 25, 2015.

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• In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

  Michael Shermer

  Funny, God, Atheist

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