Education Quote by Miguel De Unamuno

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth…

— Allan Bloom

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

— George Stigler

“An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. ('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)”

— Marcello Truzzi

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

— H. L. Mencken

“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.”

— Veronica Hollinger

“The cold logic of mid-twentieth-century atheism has now given way to an era of renewed 'spirituality,' but it is an awakening more thrapeutic than…

— J. Mark Bertrand

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

— Michael Hastings

“Nevertheless, a distinction must be made between skepticism as a philosophical thesis and skepticism as an attitude in life. As a philosophical thesis, it…

— Julián Marías

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

“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

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short…

— Laozi