To keep growing you need a healthy form of skepticism that can be summed up in these words: Answer your questions but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet… — Derek Landy 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
“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical… — David Watson Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Another of Mack’s patients says that the aliens have been taking eggs from her since she was sexually mature, and that her… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Skepticism is unbelief in causeand effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“But I can’t believe. The older I get, the more solid the wall becomes, like everything that was to be explored has… — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
“What do you want?” I grumbled, not really sure if I was imagining his voice or not. “I’m not a figment of… — D.T. Dyllin Copy Share Image
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I used everything as a positive to make me a better person and a better player. I have no regrets. Everytime I… — Chris Osgood Copy Share Image
Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying… — Gary Bauer 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
“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and… — Donald Rothberg Copy Share Image
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image