Today is April Fools' Day. Believe nothing and trust no one... Just like any other day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief. — William Pepperell Montague 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
“It is far harder to make a believer into a skeptic than to make a skeptic into a believer.” — Mike Klepper 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
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy,… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
“Prayers, maybe most of them, go unanswered. You two, you’re too young, too fortunate, to know that. You will. Prayers go unanswered.… — Edward J. Santella Copy Share Image
“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot… — Joshua Michael Stern Copy Share Image
“Even if wisdom could be communicated from “beyond”, that is insufficient reason to trust it. And perhaps even more skepticism is warranted… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just… — Richard Heuer Copy Share Image
I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Why do we not accept ESP as a psychological fact? Rhine has offered enough evidence to have convinced us on almost any… — Donald Hebb Copy Share Image
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Never believe in what someone tells you, until their actions justify their words. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to try again, I'm just afraid of getting hurt for the same reason. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
“We all have the right to be wrong at times, unfortunately some people abuse that right.” — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
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