Being true Quote by Bill Bailey

“Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on…

— Holly Estil Cunningham

“Feelings harden into beliefs when we allow emotions to become bearers of truth.”

— Ginger Harrington

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

— Francois Mauriac

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

— Emile M. Cioran

When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions,…

— Kenneth Tynan

I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have…

— Antony Beevor

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

— Emile M. Cioran

“It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or…

— William James

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

— Richard Donner

“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical and psychological…

— Otto Weininger

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably…

— Richard M. Weaver

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

— Barbara Kruger