Sentence examples for skeptical mind from inspiring English sources

In the formation of his views, I believed, Moore would be handicapped, rather than aided, by his active, skeptical mind.

I have both an appreciation of the wisdom of ancient cultures and a modern skeptical mind (Benjamin Anastas, July 1).

Like the other voters gathered here to watch the convention, he approached with an open, if skeptical, mind.

Thus, the skeptical mind of Peter Abelard (1079 1142) raised doubts by showing in his Sic et non ("Yes and No") many contradictions among beliefs handed down as revealed truths by the Church Fathers.

That's plainly irrelevant to the present situation, since polls show that Europeans are pretty much of a single, skeptical mind on the Bush administration's line on Iraq, whatever position their leaders have taken.

Hayden asked an agency lawyer for an overnight legal opinion and got an answer ("a more-than-plausible theory about its lawfulness") that a more skeptical mind could have shredded.

No Western proponent of absolute authority or order would be immune to the challenge posed by the humanist's discovery of the central place of change in the affairs of men or by his unswerving advocacy of Pyrrhonism, the skeptical mind-set opposed to all dogmas and dismissive of all claims by the human mind to possess absolute truth.

Antoine Furetière and Pierre Bayle, on the other hand, represented the philosophers, and their anticlerical bias was more in tune with the skeptical minds of the age.

What was interesting to observe at the Khmer Rouge tribunal was that former Western Maoists or fellow-travellers were not transformed, when they became disillusioned with Communism, into skeptical minds.

For those of us with cooler, but still skeptical minds, I want to offer some reassurances.

Atheists, agnostics, and those with more skeptical minds usually chalk this up to desperation.