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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
— Victor Hugo
scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,
— Peter Unger
How can a radical scepticism about the state be squared with a religious dedication to the notion that market outcomes are, by definition, optimal?
— Yanis Varoufakis
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
— David Landes
I lost the ability to consider the question of predestination with necessary scepticism.
— Alain De Botton
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
— Ricky Gervais
Scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill
— George Eliot
Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.
— William Shakespeare
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
No ghosts need apply.- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire — Arthur Conan Doyle
We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.
— Bertrand Russell
It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step of their boasted science confuted.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.
— Etienne De L'Amour
We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
— Blaise Pascal
And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
...the scepticism of men, who do not truly believe in new things unless they have actually had personal experience of them.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
— Blaise Pascal
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
— Richard Lederer
One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.
— Frank R. Stockton
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
— Christopher Hitchens
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
— Douglas Adams
The idea that water has a memory can be refuted by any one of several easily understood, invalid, arguments.
— Brian Josephson
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
— Rupert Sheldrake
The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
— Raheel Farooq
It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.
— Jim Jefferies
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
— Christopher Hitchens
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
— Tom Stoppard
For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proof.
— Bryan Islip
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
— Denis Diderot
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.
— Geri Halliwell
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
— Henry Ward Beecher