Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before. — D. J. Grothe Copy Share Image
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.” — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
“An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. ('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)” — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
“...Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth… — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
“So, were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
“The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know. — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. — George Will Copy Share Image
“To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are two reason why we don't trust people. First, we don't know them. Second, because we know them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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