“Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
People who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others. — Anonymous 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
“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
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
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. — Anonymous 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
“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
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
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Of course, Putin may well have reasons for wanting Trump to be president - not least Trump's apparent skepticism toward NATO and… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Doubt is painful…but its pain is active rather than passive, purifying rather than stultifying. Far beneath it, no matter how severe its… — Andrea Lucado Copy Share Image
There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To a suspicious person, everybody seems suspect; to a resentful person, every action is worthy of resentment. Similarly, to a loving person,… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that… — Frederick Charles Copleston Copy Share Image
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
“...there being a god, that god must be worshiped. Worship means raising the god above the individual, and liturgies often make the… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“The real question I am asking here is the one Marcuse asked in the sixties. How does a way of life break… — Rick Roderick Copy Share Image
