Skeptical Quotes

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan

Religion, Science, Deep

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
William Jennings Bryan

Faith, Money, God

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

Life, Time, Society

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Thomas S. Monson

Faith, Doubt, Thoughts

I'm not a very skeptical person.
John Malkovich

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.
Rashida Jones

Good, Nice, Bad

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Alfred Nobel

Peace, Death, After

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

Play, Around, Themselves

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

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Saying, Friendly

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.
Gene Simmons

Men, Woman, Attention

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.
Adam Savage

Heart, Small, Reason

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.
Peter Jennings

Religion, Cynical, Degree

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.
Bjorn Lomborg

Put, Idea, Hear

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

Enough, Rather, Guilty

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

Nothing, Almost, Agree

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

Good, Intentions, Milosevic

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.
Sigourney Weaver

Person, Done, Proud

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.
Tim Heidecker

Industry, Manager, Models

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Hurt, Often, Makes

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
Yancy Butler

Find, Happened, Imagine

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
Fredrik Bajer

Peace, Great, Rather

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.
Richard J. Daley

Lord, Party, Members

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.
Michael Shermer

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
Rupert Sheldrake

Truly, Position, Uncertain

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
Linda Chavez

Government, Rather, Whether

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
Pete Coors

Marriage, Woman, Between

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
Jonathan Shapiro

Important, Political, Sense

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