Skepticism Quotes

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

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 is the sadism of embittered souls.

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

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

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

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

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

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.