The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the…

“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal, in a…

— Stefan Molyneux

“Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.”

— Stefan Molyneux

“Don't believe what you're told unless your mind Confirms its truth: palm trunks, lofty as clouds, Stay wood.”

— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.”

— Tom Heehler

“I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then…

— Paul Horner

“[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“We must work hard at overcoming the natural tendency to see causal connections and other patterns where there are none by examining all the…

— Robert Carroll

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

— Bertrand Russell

“The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems…

— William Graham Sumner

“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.”

— Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that…

— Carl Sagan

“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most…

— William A. Dembski

“...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity. The scientific principle that…

— Michael Shermer

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

— Brian Cox

Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims.…

— Stephen Jay Gould