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
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot… — Joshua Michael Stern Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that… — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I read with great interest but skepticism about as magic lamp which was used with success by… — Harold Eugene Edgerton Copy Share Image
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“The causes of any widespread scepticism are likely to be sociological rather than intellectual. The main cause is always comfort without power.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Women enjoy a different history of madness. From witchcraft to hysteria we're just bad news. We know that women were condemned as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I totally understand skepticism, and I think it's so important for me to show validation of my readings. — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“Her guts told her that something was amiss. Alexandra only spoke to her intestines once in a while, so she wasn’t sure… — J.S. Mason Copy Share Image
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others... — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.” — Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying Copy Share Image
My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
Once you have been hurt by someone you trust you're so scared to get attached again. You have will always this fear… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
