We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.” — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is… — Norman Douglas 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
“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
People will question all the things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought. — Anonymous 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
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to… — Max Born Copy Share Image
The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The skepticism that has grown up about elites is totally justified. Since 2008, no one has gone to jail on Wall Street… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“You know, my children,” Swamiji said, “skepticism is not always healthy. We all think we are individuals, protecting ourselves against attacks from… — Sattar Memon Copy Share Image
“It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now… — Anonymous 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
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
“I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk… — Louis Menand 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
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
