Skepticism Quotes

295 quotes by 225 authors

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I… — Tracey Gold
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. — Walter Gilbert
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings,… — Dee Hock
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is… — Howard Schultz
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one… — Jennifer Michael Hecht
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of… — Gary Bauer
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and… — Laozi
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others... — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on… — S. T. Joshi
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. — Sextus Empiricus
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not… — Stephen Jay Gould
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 skepticism,… — E F Schumacher
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism. — Robert Breault
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it. — Learned Hand
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and… — R C Sproul

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