“Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe the skeptics. Rather, be skeptical of their skepticism.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My skepticism doesn't come from no one. There's a root to it, and it's my family. — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The more general skepticism about another millennial that likes to claim they're disrupting another industry - that doesn't serve me well. — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you will believe them, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk about anybody else's movie, but I understand fan skepticism when you're like, "Oh yeah, a Godzilla movie."… — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The causes of any widespread scepticism are likely to be sociological rather than intellectual. The main cause is always comfort without power.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This form of control is indifferent to whether or not I “believe” in it. I can’t choose to opt out or face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's okay to doubt what you've been thought to believe and seek your own answers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.” — Chris Brady Copy Share Image
Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an athiest.” — SartreJP Copy Share Image
In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image