Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might. — Mark Twain 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
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
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
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars. — Antoine Arnauld Copy Share Image
“in the informal atmosphere of the Physics Department, appointments were viewed with a certain Heisenbergian skepticism, as though being in the right… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just… — Richard Heuer Copy Share Image
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Even if wisdom could be communicated from “beyond”, that is insufficient reason to trust it. And perhaps even more skepticism is warranted… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“...there being a god, that god must be worshiped. Worship means raising the god above the individual, and liturgies often make the… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly… — William James Copy Share Image
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know. — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. ('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)” — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before. — D. J. Grothe Copy Share Image
“To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.” — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine." Four pairs of eyes looked at her… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
