Skeptical Quotes - Page 8

• 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 am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Long, Mind

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• I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

  Jack Vance

  Self Esteem, Care, Praise

  Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)”, p.141, Macmillan

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• We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Stories, Critical

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.

  Paul Kurtz

  Other Worlds, Vision, Atheism

  Paul Kurtz (1992). “The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge”

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• If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I'm not opposed, I'm very highly skeptical and critical of it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Opinion, Rate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Believe, Never Quit, Faults

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Firsts, Global Warming, Carbon

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• I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Vintage, Seductive, Balance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

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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'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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• By the time of Andi Parhamovich death, I had already grown skeptical of the Iraq war. What her death made me realize was what the actual price was. Going through that kind of loss and seeing how devastating it was on her family and friends made me decide that I was only going to write about things that I really believed in. I'm not going to compromise on that.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Writing, Loss

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year it's going to be true. With the rising populations, Yemen could be the first country in the world, or Sana'a the first major city in the world, to run out of water, that's from Yemeni hydrological engineers and the United Nations. Sooner or later, all of these people, from 7 to 9 billion, all of them want to live like America, will be consuming so much more water that some of the societies will hit a wall without more sustainable environmental practices.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Running, Wall

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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