Skeptical

Famous quotes containing the word skeptical:

“I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this “truth,” a most welcome veil over a pudendum—and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)