#skeptic

You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?" Priya seemed skeptical. "Yeah-isn't it strange how the Times isn't covering it? Half the country's on strike because of that thing the crown prince said about Pippi Longstocking Which means no meatballs for Christmas, if you know what I mean." "That's so sad!" Boomer said. ↗

— David Levithan

#skepticism

...Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#skepticism #faith

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#always #better #change #evident #feel

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

— Jason Biggs

#doing #great #sequel #skepticism #trepidation

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong. ↗

— William Osler

#truth #attitude

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#fools #journalists #lied #like #made

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

— George Berkeley

#bring #certain #certain point #common #common sense

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

— Jeff Bezos

#novel #skeptical #will

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those. ↗

— Jessica Biel

#because #chainsaw #classic #cult #doing

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them. ↗

— Brad Carson

#because #bring #convince #could #democrats