Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Science will always give answer to the first question but refuses to the last one. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“The faces of the panel listening were the very embodiment of skepticism made flesh.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Prayers, maybe most of them, go unanswered. You two, you’re too young, too fortunate, to know that. You will. Prayers go unanswered.… — Edward J. Santella Copy Share Image
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
People will question all the things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
“...Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Jesus' willingness to accommodate Thomas' unbelief is a reminder that God can handle our doubt. And that the rationalist doesn't need to… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Among us, on the other hand, 'the righteous man lives by faith.' Now, if you take away positive affirmation, you take away… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with love and faith and belief is not having it. — Haley James Scott Copy Share Image
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image