Skepticism Quotes
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.
Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.
D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.
J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.
Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.
Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.
Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.
No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.
The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.
That's all right, " she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.
Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds.
All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.
The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.
To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke