Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. — Karl Ludwig von Knebel Copy Share Image
“I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced?… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever -… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“A person who peremptorily denies the existence of anything which is beyond the horizon of his understanding because he cannot make it… — Franz Hartmann Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“Trust your internal observations too much and too long, and you might be in for a very rude awakening. Second, we believe… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
The closer we scrutinize what God has made, the more perfect it appears! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
