Skeptical Quotes - Page 6

• President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

  Peter Baker

  White, Yesterday, Play

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• Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attitude, Needs

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• There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

  Greg Graffin

  Vaccines, World, Want

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate, ready to stand alone, curious, eager, skeptical. The banner of critical independence, ragged and torn though it may be, is still the best we have.

  Irving Howe

  Intellectual, Independence, Mind

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Sensitive

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• I'm a bit skeptical about the possibilities for resistant fiction, and even more despondent over the potential for politically engaged writing to do much of anything outside the dominant means of production and distribution.

  Davis Schneiderman

  Writing, Mean, Possibility

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I find myself skeptical of music that forces you to have a certain experience, emotional reaction, or specific constructive arc of experience. But performers should still take care of that, to a certain extent - how does it add up? What you want from performance, because we're all in a room together, is that somehow we've gotten somewhere at the end, together. You could call that a sense of narrative, but it's not so obvious how that happens. One way it happens is by everyone caring about it happening.

  Vijay Iyer

  Caring, Emotional, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

  James Surowiecki

  Differences, Making A Difference, Tasks

  "The Stimulus Strategy". www.newyorker.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

  Jeff Bezos

  Novel

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• There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.

  Peter O'Toole

  Believe, Mind, Balance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most women who are harassed don't come forward, they don't complain because they're skeptical of the process, or they don't think anything is going to come of it if they are found to have been harassed. We know from some very public cases that sexual assault isn't always punished even by the courts in the way that they should be. So, we have got to figure out, how are we going to embed women's experiences in the processes, so that they trust the processes, that there are fair investigations that get to the truth, and then there is appropriate punishment when abuse occurs?

  Anita Hill

  Thinking, Abuse, Complaining

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, People, Cynical

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• The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lying, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much harder to get on as an imaginative writer like me now. You need to have somebody who believes in what you're doing and who never is skeptical about what you're doing. My wife thought it was a great thing for me to be a writer because in practical terms it freed her to do what she wanted to do, which was work.

  Richard Ford

  Girl, Believe, Wife

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

  Jeff Bezos

  Missions, Centerpieces, Advertisers

  "Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper". Interview with Paul Farhi, www.washingtonpost.com. September 3, 2013.

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• Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Philosophy, Government, President

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• I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Thinking, Views

  "Six days until 'The Lost Symbol' hits stores" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2009.

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• I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."

  Barack Obama

  Years, Obamacare, Doe

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Organization

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Cynical, Bills

  "God Is Not. Great!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Hurt, Failure, Adversity

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• I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

  Bono

  Thinking, Would Be, Causes

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• Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Friendly, Done

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• Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

  Honore de Balzac

  Suicide, Keys, Paris

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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