I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.” — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I don't believe in love at first sight but I do believe in judging at first sight. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,” — Peter Unger Copy Share Image
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“It is far harder to make a believer into a skeptic than to make a skeptic into a believer.” — Mike Klepper Copy Share Image
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
“Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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