“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I've walked around in a body that's been undervalued, under skepticism and underestimated. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
“Uncertain of uncertainty, skeptical of skepticism, it seems that the most important question is whether there is an important question.” — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
“A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts.” — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Within the scientific community, there is healthy skepticism. And the question is, 'How do you ever get to a meaningful null result?… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value. This mirage is especially… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“The real bible is not the work of inspired men, nor prophets, nor apostles, nor evangelists, nor of Christs. Every man who… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and… — Francois Maspero Copy Share Image
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“All those pathetic lonely people fooling one another into their clumsy games of afterlife and cosmic relevance just to avoid noticing the… — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens. — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is fine, but don't pass by a once in a lifetime opportunity to uncover a treasure because of it.” — T.R. Bosse Copy Share Image
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Never believe someone telling you that they would never break your heart, because no one can keep that promise forever. — Valentine Chikoma 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
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
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
“That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine." Four pairs of eyes looked at her… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
