Skepticism Quotes

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert

Science, Thought, Virtues

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Romain Rolland

Faith, Tomorrow, Yesterday

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.
Dixie Lee Ray

True, Taken, Press

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James

Great, Future, Society

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
Jason Biggs

Great, Sequel, Approached

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.
Tracey Gold

Person, Understand, Drink

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
Elliot Richardson

Deep, Apathy, Beyond

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Democracy, Commitment, Capacity

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?
Robert MacNeil

Good, Saying, Friends

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
Jason Biggs

Mean, Difficult, Meet

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
K. Eric Drexler

Real, Thinking, Else

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Samuel E. Morison

History, Important, Point

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.
Tim Ferriss

Best, Trying, Themselves

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
Tim Ferriss

Real, Themselves, Sit

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.
Arthur Levitt

Emotional, Become, Start

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
Marc Webb

Whole, Everybody, Virtue

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
Thomas Griffith

Attitude, Public, Press

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
Jim Clark

Time, Fair, Whether

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