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
Over thinking ruins you, ruins the situation, twists things around and just makes everything much worse than what it actually is... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can’t stand forever on the shore. At some point, filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism. — Rafael Yglesias 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
I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard… — John Manley Copy Share Image
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco 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
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“Women enjoy a different history of madness. From witchcraft to hysteria we're just bad news. We know that women were condemned as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“But in an age of intelligence, when the keys of science have unlocked the sacred shrines and hallowed vaults of sacerdotal mysteries,… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
“As the philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote in a 1928 essay, laypeople must evaluate expert claims by exercising their own careful logic as… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans… — Aaron Klein Copy Share Image
“Literary theory, especially, cast its lot with a spirit of ceaseless skepticism and incessant interrogation; modeling itself on Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust,… — Rita Felski Copy Share Image
The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is… — Edward John Carnell Copy Share Image
When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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