Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they… — Eva Hart Copy Share Image
It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“The business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There is in all of us a spirit of scepticism which remains with us all our lives. Our most treasured beliefs dwell… — Claude Houghton Copy Share Image
“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“He gave the impression that he believed in things. We did too—it was just that we wanted to believe in our own… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Any trend that generates a lot of excitement encounters scepticism due to the bad experiences - internet and housing crashes - of… — Cathie Wood Copy Share Image
“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
“There are no ghosts. Belief in ghosts is a backward idea, a superstition and a sign of cowardice. This is a matter… — Chi-fang Ho Copy Share Image
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
“The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute belief which the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
