Skepticism Quotes

295 quotes by 225 authors

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and… — Richard Dawkins
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. — John Templeton
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to… — Donald Murray
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the… — Carl Sagan
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism. — Michael Shermer
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary… — Julia Cameron
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to… — Norman Douglas
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. — Samuel Johnson
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here? — Robert Frost
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief. — E. M. Forster
Great intellects are skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. — George Santayana
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is â€œyouâ€™re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everythingâ€™s screwed up, nothingâ€™s ever gonna… — Bill Nye

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