To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with love and faith and belief is not having it. — Haley James Scott Copy Share Image
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
“It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
To keep growing you need a healthy form of skepticism that can be summed up in these words: Answer your questions but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Holmes’s trick is to treat every thought, every experience, and every perception the way he would a pink elephant. In other words,… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“We live our lives based on the assumption that we directly perceive, and are accurately interpreting, objects with a fair amount of… — Tagawa Shun'ei Copy Share Image
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily… — Anthon St. Maarten 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
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
“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 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
“He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate… — Ashim Shanker 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
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“The faces of the panel listening were the very embodiment of skepticism made flesh.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
