Approach Quote by Michael Shermer

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

— Michael Shermer

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

— Michael Shermer

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

— Steven Novella

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.

— William Pepperell Montague

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe…

— George Santayana

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

— Rush Limbaugh

Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible…

— Stanislaw Lem

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

— Sydney J. Harris

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte