Believe Quote by Carl Sagan

“And yet, the chief deficiency I see in the sceptical movement is in its polarization: Us v. Them - the sense that we have…

— Carl Sagan

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe…

— George Santayana

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

— Michael Shermer

“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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

— George Santayana

All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of…

— Kenny Smith

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about…

— E. F. Schumacher

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility…

— George Santayana

We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.

— Bertrand Russell

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

— Stephen Jay Gould

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those…

— Carl Sagan

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

— Michael Shermer