Skepticism Quotes · Page 2

“L'honneste est stable et permanent.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The only valid faith today is disbelief.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“Skepticism is luxury.”

— Patricia Gaffney

“REGARD NONTRADITIONAL FOODS WITH SKEPTICISM”

— Michael Pollan

I do not question the word of God, but its interpretation by men.

— Terry Mark

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

— Michel de Montaigne

What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?

— William Shakespeare

“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

“It seems the more we know, the less we believe.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.”

— Etienne de L'Amour

“You have opposition to love?” “Not opposition so much as skepticism. I make it a practice not to believe in things I…

— Sarah MacLean

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see…

— Carl Sagan

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

— Paul Ricoeur

“scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,”

— Peter Unger

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

— Victor J. Stenger

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

— Paul Davies

Those who don't trust you before the explanation won't trust you even after the explanation.. Trust can't be negotiated.

— Chanda Kaushik

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other…

— H. L. Mencken

Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know,…

— William Lane Craig

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of…

— David Hume

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not…

— Steven Weinberg

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to…

— Max Born

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy…

— Bertrand Russell

“I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what…

— Emil Cioran

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is…

— John Templeton

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

— Thomas Paine

One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s.…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not…

— S. T. Joshi

“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure…

— Carl Sagan

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although…

— Francis Bacon

“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to…

— Thomas Hobbes

“There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are…

— Elton Trueblood

I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I…

— Tony Campolo

I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some…

— Barack Obama

I don't believe in love at first sight but I do believe in judging at first sight.

— Nikhil Saluja

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

— Blaise Pascal

2 wrongs dont make a right, but when its too right somthing has to be wrong.

— Syoung

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson