“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
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“Many skeptics, it is true, are inclined to dismiss the whole procedure [chart reading] as akin to astrology or necromancy; but the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“As the skeptics’ main teaching was that nothing could be accepted with certainty, conclusions of various degrees of probability could be formed,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake we can make is to think that we've figured the whole thing out. The people I know who are… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
“The test of character posed by the gentleness of God's approach to us is especially dangerous for those formed by the ideas… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“A person who peremptorily denies the existence of anything which is beyond the horizon of his understanding because he cannot make it… — Franz Hartmann Copy Share Image
“But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our… — Abhijit V. Banerjee Copy Share Image
Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models,… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
“Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
In any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“Some of my colleagues…acknowledge that the earth is warming, but insist that such warming (and cooling) is nothing unusual, and it’s not… — Christopher C. Horner Copy Share Image
![“All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.” quote by George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc0/george-berkeley-8287_argument_all-that-stock-of-arguments-the-skeptics_973459.jpg)
![“Many skeptics, it is true, are inclined to dismiss the whole procedure [chart reading] as akin to astrology or necromancy; but the sheer weight of its importance in Wall Street requires that its pretensions be examined with some degree of care.” quote by Benjamin Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/099/benjamin-graham-1531_customer_many-skeptics-it-is-true-are-inclined-to_2452676.jpg)
