People who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner Copy Share Image
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy,… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Within the scientific community, there is healthy skepticism. And the question is, 'How do you ever get to a meaningful null result?… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I’m a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without… — Naima Simone Copy Share Image
A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a family therapist, and when I… — Onno van der Hart Copy Share Image
“That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully,… — Muhammad al Warraq Copy Share Image
The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and… — Alan Abelson Copy Share Image
Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Non-belief and skepticism go hand and hand; always seeking, but never finding the truth.” — T.R. Bosse Copy Share Image
Sometimes the mind has all the facts but the heart refuse to believe them. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
“Information without truth bred skepticism; skepticism without truth bred submission.” — Brutus Copy Share Image
“Every argument against the God of the Bible is based on made-up stuff.” — Petros Scientia Copy Share Image
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