Quotes About Skeptical

She did not think it any coincidence that ideas denigrating literary authorship had taken center stage simultaneously with the emergence of formerly silent voices for whom the act of writing, and publishing, had the deepest and most delicious possible meaning, simultaneously with the emergence of an audience for whom the act of thinking and writing was an act of skeptical anger, sometimes a transitional act to violence.

The idea that we have the capacity to change or stop the climate, I'm just skeptical.

He was a bitter little misanthrope but good with a spanner.

Interstiality is a theme that is simultaneously genuinely interesting and potentially quite useful, and also a terrible cliché, so if you're going to use it, it helps to be at least respectfully skeptical about the wilder claims of its theoretical partisans, I think.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

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

This was fishy, and more "old tuna in the heat" fishy instead of "damn good fishsticks" fishy.

There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.

misanthropic

I've never been a dreamer.

Reporters are trained to hate corporate jargon and to eliminate it, not to engage in it. We're expected to be cynical and skeptical, not to be cheerleaders.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called "engaged." They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions.

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.

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.

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

I was, as you may have guessed, born tired and filled with bile. I

Save your family. Feed your belly. Pay attention, and be skeptical of the people in charge.

To be a revolutionary one must be a little daft; to be a conservative, a little cynical.

Jestem osob? bardzo pow?ci?gliw?, bardzo nie?mia??, obsesyjnie strzeg?c? swojej prywatno?ci i zasadniczo stroni?c? od ludzi. I nie wierz? w mity, zw?aszcza we w?asny.

The single greatest cultural contribution of postmodernity is that it eliminates the presumption of intellectual neutrality that modernity automatically associated with skeptical rationalism. (...) It shows, not that truth is socially constructed, but that the uniquely human act of bearing witness to the truth is always a moral as well as an intellectual or empirical or noetic act.

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.