Skepticism quotes
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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.
-- Craig A. Evans -
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
-- Cullen Hightower -
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Skepticism is history's bedfellow.
-- Edgar Saltus -
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
-- Felix Rohatyn -
Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.
-- Francis Quarles -
Great intellects are skeptical.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...
-- George Eliot -
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
-- Greg Graffin -
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
-- Henryk Sienkiewicz -
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
-- J Tillman -
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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
-- Jason Biggs -
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
-- John Dewey -
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.
-- Kathy Reichs -
Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.
-- Kiersten White -
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Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.
-- Learned Hand -
I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.
-- Lilian Jackson Braun -
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
-- Louis Pasteur -
I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.
-- Michael Shermer -
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Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.
-- Michael Shermer -
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
-- Ralph Barton Perry -
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I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
-- Rashida Jones -
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.
-- Steven Novella -
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It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.
-- Steven Pinker -
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
-- Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
-- Walter Gilbert -
It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
-- Walter Lippmann -
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
-- William Pepperell Montague -
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
-- Antoine Arnauld -
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
-- Austin O'Malley -
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
-- Kevin Shields -
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The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.
-- Karl Ludwig von Knebel -
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
-- Karl Ludwig von Knebel
