“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens....inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of… — Anthony Everitt Copy Share Image
“...Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek… — James Russell Lowell 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
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
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully,… — Muhammad al Warraq Copy Share Image
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in… — William James Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A person who peremptorily denies the existence of anything which is beyond the horizon of his understanding because he cannot make it… — Franz Hartmann Copy Share Image
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow. — Emily Dickinson 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
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
