Sherwin B. Nuland

Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human spirit, I don't mean anything divine, I don't mean anything supernatural - certainly not coming from this skeptic.

American Scientist

Josh Gates

I'm a real open-minded skeptic when it comes to the ghost world. And there are places that I've traveled to where it's very scary and I end up feeling like there might be something going on there.

John F. Kennedy

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

American President

Tyler Henry

A lot of people I read start off as skeptics or nonbelievers. There comes a point in every reading when you see their worldview being changed.

American Entertainer

Hosea Ballou

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

American Clergyman

Vita Sackville-West

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

English Novelist

Bill Gates

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

American Businessman

George Bernard Shaw

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Irish Playwright

James Balog

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

American Photographer

Zak Bagans

American Author

A skeptic often analyzes ideas thoroughly, rather than just accepting them.

Critical Thinker

'Skeptic' doesn't always mean negativity; it can suggest cautious intelligence.

Not Negative

Skeptics look for concrete proof or logical reasoning before believing.

Evidence Required

Skeptics may challenge commonly accepted beliefs or standard practices.

Challenging Norms

Skeptics might inspire deeper investigation into commonly held beliefs.

Deeper Inquiry

In philosophical contexts, 'skeptic' is used more formally to discuss knowledge.

Academic Term

Philosophical skepticism doesn't dismiss ideas, it promotes thorough scrutiny.

Not Always Negative

 None of us, I think, want human progress to stop. I think we want it to carry on. I think we want the lot of humanity to keep on increasing. And I think this is where climate change skeptics and deniers come in. I think this is what they want. They want quality of life to keep increasing. They want to hold on to what they've got.

Nic Marks: The Happy...

 so in these countries more economic transactions occur and more wealth is created alleviating poverty so poor countries are by and large low trust countries so if I understood the chemistry of trustworthiness I might help alleviate poverty or am also a skeptic I don't want to just ask people

Trust, morality -- and...

 your essence, the real you, is very much dependent on a particular part of your body, that is, your brain. And such skeptics can find comfort in the fourth kind of immortality story, and that is legacy, the idea that you can live on through the echo you leave in the world,

The 4 stories we tell...

 Change is not only about embracing the new; it's about giving up on some of the old as well. Now, over the past five years, I have worked with companies all over the world to change their ways of working. And clearly, every company has their own skeptics

What are you willing to...

 A computer doesn't know it. You need to slow down. A skeptic is going to say that every year for the last five years, you've kind of said, well, no this is the year, we're confident that it will be there in a year or two or, you know,

Elon Musk: A future...

 leader in super-premium fresh healthy beverages salad dressings and carrots and skeptics said carrots Denise really I said no packaged fresh it's a twelve billion dollar category growing at six to seven percent per year and Campbell's

The art of responsibility...

 the skeptics that what they were seeing was not just motion-picture images. The images on the television screen were actually live signals from across time and space. A possible world of high technology was first glimpsed here.

Seven Wonders of the New...

 But if you are old power, the most important thing you can do is to occupy yourself before others occupy you, before you are occupied. Imagine that a group of your biggest skeptics are camped in the heart of your organization

Jeremy Heimans: What new...

 We follow up, we check in, we speak our personal truths and, when appropriate, we apologize. Skeptics will say that cohousing is only interesting or attractive to a very small group of people.

How cohousing can make...

 Guys -- contrarian white teens of the world -- if you are being a round earth skeptic and a male privilege skeptic and a racism is bad skeptic, you're not being a skeptic, you're being a jerk.