A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The True Believer ignores anything that doesn't fit his belief system. Instead, he inevitably comes to hold those beliefs at a very… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of… — Adebowale Babatunde Ojowuro Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
And, as soon as possible, be on the lookout for someone whose whole manner of speaking and being makes, as it were,… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“The business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
