Back roads Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Back roads Credo Doubt Inspirational Love Scepticism
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards… — William James Copy Share Image
Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset; but conspiracism is a virus that feeds off insecurity and bitterness. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life. — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's… — George Will Copy Share Image
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image