"We must be skeptical even of our skepticism."
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"You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting."
"It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe."
"Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me."
"I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in."
"The one thing that you can say about the new Cabinet Donald Trump is putting together. That seems to be one of the coherent themes. They're very, very skeptical about Iran."
"I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things."
"Be Skeptical, but learn to listen."