Balance Quote by Peter O'Toole

“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that…

— Carl Sagan

“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that…

— Carl Sagan

“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that…

— Carl Sagan

Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we…

— Paul Kurtz

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

— Robert A. Heinlein

When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their…

— Carl Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

— Carl Sagan

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

— Neil Postman

Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order…

— Ernest Sosa

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

I totally understand skepticism, and I think it's so important for me to show validation of my readings.

— Tyler Henry

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