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Skepticism Quotes
Affordable InnovationInnovationRisk TakingSkepticismVisionary When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
CautionDistrustSkepticism If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Critical ThinkingEducationKnowledgeScienceSkepticism Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Cultural AttitudesEuropeGlobal PerspectivesGMOsSkepticism There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
CredulityExaggerationRealismSkepticism When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
Critical ThinkingDoubtOpen-mindednessSkepticism I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
DogmaSelf RespectSkepticism All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
AuthenticityDepthMisconceptionSkepticismTruth Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
ConfidenceCritical ThinkingSkepticism Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
ExpertiseHumilityMasteryReflectionSkepticism Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
JournalistsMediaSkepticismTrust All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.
ChangeConformityInnovationProgressSkepticism New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
CynicismGovernmentPoliticsSkepticismTradition The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
DivinityMiraclesSkepticismTruth Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
CreativityHuman PotentialInnovationResistanceSkepticism The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
BeliefHappinessSkepticismTruth The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
ClarityCreativitySimplicitySkepticismStorytelling I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Critical ThinkingIntellectual IntegritySkepticismTruth I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
Critical ThinkingCuriosityEducationKnowledgeSkepticism As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
Critical ThinkingInquiryInterdisciplinary StudiesSkepticismVirtue Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
CautionComplexityDecision MakingIndividualitySkepticism I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.
BeliefMisconceptionSkepticismTruth If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Critical ThinkingPublic OpinionSkepticismStatistics I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.