In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in… — William James 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
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
