I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of… — Francis Quarles 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
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Some people aren't afraid of commitment, they're actually afraid of committing to someone who won't commit to them. — Anonymous 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
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Let me know your faults and I will remind you of your strengths and gifts. Look at the world through skeptical eyes… — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“The real question I am asking here is the one Marcuse asked in the sixties. How does a way of life break… — Rick Roderick Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I… — Cioran Copy Share Image
One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli 's, at first we would be inclined… — Werner Heisenberg 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
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. — C. S. Lewis 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
“Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course… — Jim Clark Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
