“The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.” — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner -… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,” — Peter Unger Copy Share Image
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There was a bit of scepticism on my part, because the issue of racism is a problem that exists everywhere. Then I… — Victor Osimhen Copy Share Image
Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know,… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in… — William James Copy Share Image
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“don’t confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
And, as soon as possible, be on the lookout for someone whose whole manner of speaking and being makes, as it were,… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there… — William James Copy Share Image
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
“Most geniuses responsible for the major mutations in the history of thought seem to have certain features in common; on the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A person who peremptorily denies the existence of anything which is beyond the horizon of his understanding because he cannot make it… — Franz Hartmann Copy Share Image
“If you’re only sceptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crochety misanthrope… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads… — Joseph Mazzini Wheeler Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly… — William James Copy Share Image