A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.” — Sebastián Wortys 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
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot… — Joshua Michael Stern Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I read with great interest but skepticism about as magic lamp which was used with success by… — Harold Eugene Edgerton Copy Share Image
“Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I… — Cioran Copy Share Image
One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. — George Will Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts.” — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I've walked around in a body that's been undervalued, under skepticism and underestimated. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
“Uncertain of uncertainty, skeptical of skepticism, it seems that the most important question is whether there is an important question.” — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
Never believe someone telling you that they would never break your heart, because no one can keep that promise forever. — Valentine Chikoma Copy Share Image
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
Once you have been hurt by someone you trust you're so scared to get attached again. You have will always this fear… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens. — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
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