Scepticism Quotes
47 quotes by 38 authors
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible…
— William Lane Craig
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
— David Hume
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Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
— David Landes
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does…
— Galen Strawson
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
— Denis Diderot
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I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but…
— Eva Hart
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Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow…
— James Martineau
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be…
— Natan Sharansky
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
— Mason Cooley
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do,…
— Nick Hornby
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If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet…
— Carl Sagan
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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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