“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.” — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance. — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism… — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image
Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
In my opinion I think there's a difference between skepticism and cynicism; I tend to avoid cynicism because I feel it can… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“To fight for greater things is the essence of our humanity. Therefore, to fall to the skepticism of those for whom the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you will believe them, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“So, were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Entertainment seems to be the only arena where children who pursue the work of their parents, which is an inherently natural thing… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion, not proof, to destroy it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“They were completely lacking in the sort of healthy skepticism needed to attain any degree of wisdom.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
