Quotes About Skepticism

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

I am very suspicious of people.

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.