Skeptical Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

  Lee Strobel

  Community, Important, Church

  "Lee Strobel: We're on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. January 22, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Markets will always move ahead of the news.

  Joseph Granville

  Moving, News, Financial

  8 Copy quote

• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  Walter Gilbert

  Moving, Views, Community

  8 Copy quote

• You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?" Priya seemed skeptical. "Yeah-isn't it strange how the Times isn't covering it? Half the country's on strike because of that thing the crown prince said about Pippi Longstocking Which means no meatballs for Christmas, if you know what I mean." "That's so sad!" Boomer said.

  David Levithan

  Country, Mean, Political

  7 Copy quote

• I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving, Financial, Judgment

  38 Copy quote

• Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, World, Fantasy

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. 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

  Effort, Done, Pushing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fake, Terrible, Complexity

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

  Conan O'Brien

  Visionaries, Financial, Republican

  4 Copy quote

• Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Honesty, Trying, May

  31 Copy quote

• In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Weight, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Emotional, Views, Intellectual

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

  Jim Rogers

  Bail, Bears, Financial

  10 Copy quote

• I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Trying, Steps

  5 Copy quote

• You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trust

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gambling, Casinos, Financial

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

  Pope Francis

  Truth, Believe, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Trying, Doe

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.163, NYU Press

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Religious, War, Mind

  William Lyon Phelps (1939). “Autobiography: with letters”, Ams Pr Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the flood. The greatest miracle in the Bible is recorded in the first verse: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." If that miracle is true, then every miracle in the Bible is at least possible (including Noah's Ark). If God created the universe, then He can do whatever He wants inside it.

  Frank Turek

  Bible, Miracle, Heaven

  37 Copy quote

• Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

  Jeff Beck

  Mom, Guitar, Two

  6 Copy quote

• Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Would Be, Uncertain, Position

  7 Copy quote