“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
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
If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever -… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite… — Kurt Hahn 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
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
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain… — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
“if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe… — Tim Krieder Copy Share Image
“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else. — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume Copy Share Image
What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive? — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image