“Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.” — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“. . . I don’t believe that celebrity spokeswomen get their hair colour from a box.” — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“We all have the right to be wrong at times, unfortunately some people abuse that right.” — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than… — David Hume 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
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
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
People will question all the things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“I’m a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without… — Naima Simone Copy Share Image
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced?… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Among us, on the other hand, 'the righteous man lives by faith.' Now, if you take away positive affirmation, you take away… — Augustine of Hippo 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
The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and… — Alan Abelson 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
...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Jesus' willingness to accommodate Thomas' unbelief is a reminder that God can handle our doubt. And that the rationalist doesn't need to… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
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