“Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.” — Chris Brady Copy Share Image
It's okay to doubt what you've been thought to believe and seek your own answers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an athiest.” — SartreJP Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe the skeptics. Rather, be skeptical of their skepticism.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My skepticism doesn't come from no one. There's a root to it, and it's my family. — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars. — Antoine Arnauld Copy Share Image
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course… — Jim Clark Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling… — Tyler Henry 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
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
“When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Even if wisdom could be communicated from “beyond”, that is insufficient reason to trust it. And perhaps even more skepticism is warranted… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Don’t be so concerned,” he whispered. “We will get through this, I promise.” “What makes you so certain?” I couldn’t help my… — M.A. George Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground… — Peter Gay 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
“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
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