Skepticism Quotes · Page 7

Never believe in what someone tells you, until their actions justify their words.

— Lucas Hunter

I'm not afraid to try again, I'm just afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

— Craig A. Evans

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

— J. Tillman

Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.

— Kiersten White

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

— Walter Lippmann

“She believed in nothing, if it wasn't for her skepticism she would be an athiest.”

— SartreJP

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

— George Santayana

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain…

— William James

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

— Ambrose Bierce

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

— Paul Ricoeur

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see…

— Carl Sagan

“You have opposition to love?” “Not opposition so much as skepticism. I make it a practice not to believe in things I…

— Sarah MacLean

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

— Bertrand Russell

I've had a couple along the way, including an NBA official, who admitted to a little bit of skepticism when they first…

— Doris Burke

“When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

— Anonymous

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of…

— David Hume

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in…

— William James

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side…

— Peter Morgan

... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be…

— Bethany McLean

The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about…

— Marianne Williamson

“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default…

— Steven Novella

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure…

— Bertrand Russell

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic…

— Immanuel Kant

The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is…

— Francis Bacon

“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The causes of any widespread scepticism are likely to be sociological rather than intellectual. The main cause is always comfort without power.…

— Bertrand Russell

What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his…

— Diane Ravitch

“This form of control is indifferent to whether or not I “believe” in it. I can’t choose to opt out or face…

— Anonymous

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

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room…

— Anne Rice

The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who…

— David Hume

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

— Veronica Roth

“We all have the right to be wrong at times, unfortunately some people abuse that right.”

— Carmine Savastano

It's difficult to trust people who already show they don't trust you.

— Terry Mark

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

“When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism”

— Sunday Adelaja

Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath.

— Marty Rubin

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

— Thomas Carlyle

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

— Carl Sagan