I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz 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
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will 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
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials,… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton 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
Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.” — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz 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
Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
