Skepticism Quotes

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

- Jason Biggs

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

I just think there`s a lot of skepticism in the marketplace about what`s going to happen to earnings with rates higher.

- Barbara Allen

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

- Richard Feynman

I didn`t go to acting school, only to normal school. I`m not for acting schools because I suspect that the majority of the teachers are there because they can`t find work as actors or because they think they can teach people to act but haven`t had much experience themselves in the field. What I mean is that my skepticism derives from the fact that I believe that for an actor it`s much more important to learn with the audience . . . the audience is the real teacher and it`s the audience that has taught me what I know. The audience`s reaction tells me what I need to do, just as the audience`s reaction makes you into a first-rate star. It`s easy: the important thing is that a sufficient number of people, an audience, in a sufficient number of countries is willing to spend money to go see this actor. At this point the movie producers interfere and ask you to work on this or that film. And then one becomes an actor with international success depending on the public`s reaction.

- Oliver Reed

There is a fair degree of skepticism in the industry given some of the past failures. But we are selling services to very knowledgeable customers who are looking for services that meet or exceed their expectations in terms of quality and service levels. We are working quietly with many of those providers to achieve and surpass the metrics that they set and expect.

- John Grady

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

- Walter Gilbert

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

- David Suzuki

The story took on an importance later that it did not deserve originally. Whether I wrote that story or not, Enron would have gone bankrupt, investors would have lost billions of dollars and thousands of people would have lost their jobs. I just picked up on an underlying skepticism. If you had told me then that the company would go under by the end of the year, I would have never believed it. I was as naive as the rest of us.

- Bethany McLean

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

- Adam J. Smith

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

- Abby Engebose

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

- Aimee Litka

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.

- Al Ford

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.

- Alan Walters

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world`s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

- Alberto Adrianzen

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

- Alex Kroll

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

- Almeda Jacks

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?

- Andi Ferris

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

- Andrew Camillo

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

- Vincent van Gogh

To believe in luck - is skepticism

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy

- Denis Diderot

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism

- David Suzuki

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca

- George Santayana

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all

- Ralph B. Perry