Scepticism Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot
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
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
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
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
Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other. — Mason Cooley
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
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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