Action Quote by Tim Ferriss

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

“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.”

— Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

— Tyler Henry

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real…

— Tim Ferriss

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

“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 the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Skepticism is certainly a beneficial tool, to the extent that it yields a dialectic of ideas that can progress toward empirical resolution of difficult…

— Jaak Panksepp

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

There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not…

— Jamie Hyneman

I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to make sure…

— Julian Baggini