“Her guts told her that something was amiss. Alexandra only spoke to her intestines once in a while, so she wasn’t sure… — J.S. Mason Copy Share Image
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The more general skepticism about another millennial that likes to claim they're disrupting another industry - that doesn't serve me well. — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course… — Jim Clark Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult.… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism,… — Terry Eagleton 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
“The real question I am asking here is the one Marcuse asked in the sixties. How does a way of life break… — Rick Roderick Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I… — John Rawls 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
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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
