Skeptical Quotes - Page 4

• 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 passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

  Ben Casnocha

  Writing, Odds, Hearing

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• In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

  J. D. Greear

  Christian, Age Love, Apologetic

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.231, B&H Publishing Group

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• Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

  Linda Chavez

  Government, Sea, Digging

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  Raekwon

  Fans, Cuban, Projects

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• Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Listen To Your Heart

  "The Fifth Agreement : A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 2009.

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• On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

  Nate Silver

  Average, Data, Play

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• I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

  Gene Simmons

  Men, Kitchen, Attention

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.

  Ronald Graham

  Learning, Creative Juices, Two

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Screw Ups, Done, Want

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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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• In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.

  Erich Heller

  Real, Intelligent, Self

  Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr

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

  Carles Puyol

  Parent, Becoming, Study

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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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• I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

  Errol Morris

  Behavior, Ability, Humans

  "The Anti-Post-Modern Post-Modernist". Lecture by Errol Morris, errolmorris.com.

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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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• 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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• The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

  Bergen Evans

  Trust, Wisdom, Men

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• If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Political, Rambling

  Interview with Charlie Rose, May 27, 1996.

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