Scott Adams Quotes

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

Scott Adams

• Issue
• Suspicious

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Now
  • Pay
  • Issue

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to." Shut up.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Happy

• Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Girl
  • Army
  • Vampire

• have worked very hard for two years to resolve this difficult issue. The only way to resolve it is diplomatically. But the Iranian president has offered nothing in this speech to suggest that he wants to abide by the agreement Iran has made.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Issue
  • Iran
  • North American Free Trade Agreement

• I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Jobs
  • Suspicious
  • NAFTA

• Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Should
  • Written

• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Lies

• The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • True
  • Issue

• What we're trying to do is set the bar a little bit higher. This has been a very contentious, very emotional (issue).

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Trying
  • Emotional
  • Issue

• I've read until my eyes were bleeding. I don't know what more could be said. This is not a black-and-white issue.

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Issue

• Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

  

  James Cook
  • Solution
  • Issue
  • Liberals

• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

  

  Plutarch
  • Creatures
  • Issue
  • Species

• The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Man
  • Issue
  • Privacy

• The data shows that this is most likely a hundreds-of-thousands to millions of victims issue.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Issue
  • Victims
  • Millions

• It's something we're looking at. Whether it's an issue or not, it's hard to say at this point.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Hard
  • Point
  • Issue

• But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Mind
  • Lord
  • Evidence

• Diagnostic reliability isn’t an abstract issue: If doctors can’t agree on what ails their patients, there is no way they can provide proper treatment. When there’s no relationship between diagnosis and cure, a mislabeled patient is bound to be a mistreated patient. You would not want to have your appendix removed when you are suffering from a kidney stone, and you would not want have somebody labeled as “oppositional” when, in fact, his behavior is rooted in an attempt to protect himself against real danger.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Relationship
  • Danger
  • Issue

• He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

  

  W. L. George
  • Failure
  • Dead

• He's a terrible president, he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country, he's been a total disaster.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • History

• The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • Opportunities
  • Computer
  • Entrepreneurs

• One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Happiness
  • Misfortune
  • Viciousness

• Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Issue
  • Suspicious