Skepticism Quotes

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.