Quotes About Skepticism

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.

I am incredibly cynical, and I don't think that's something people would guess. People think I'm all positive, but I'm a skeptic.

I'm a natural born skeptic.

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.

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

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

Skeptical doesn't have to necessarily be a negative thing. I think if you allow yourself to second guess things and look at things from a distance you don't immediately run into things blindfolded, so that's a positive.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

Over the years, I paid careful attention in client meetings and jotted down things that quite didn't make sense. And I had the courage to raise questions and to be skeptical when something didn't add up.

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.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

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

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

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

A new product, technology, or innovation - such as Bitcoin - has the potential to give rise both to frauds and high-risk investment opportunities. Potential investors can be easily enticed with the promise of high returns in a new investment space and also may be less skeptical when assessing something novel, new, and cutting-edge.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.