Skepticism Quotes

295 quotes by 225 authors

A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is… — Carl Sagan
The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of… — Mahatma Gandhi
Skepticism is not a position; it's a process. — Michael Shermer
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and… — Immanuel Kant
Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the… — PZ Myers
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached… — Marilyn Ferguson
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" — Michel de Montaigne
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief;… — Thomas Huxley
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. — Romain Rolland
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it… — K. Eric Drexler
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always… — William J. Brennan
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days,… — Anne Rice
One canâ€™t stand forever on the shore. At some point, filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life… — Arthur Miller
People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack… — John C. Maxwell
With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is… — Leland Ryken
The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that… — Massimo Pigliucci
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli
You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes… — Tim Ward
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is… — Allan Bloom

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