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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other. — Mason Cooley

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

I don't believe that celebrity spokeswomen get their hair colour from a box. — Roberta Pearce

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

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? — Jake Jesser

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism. — Pierre Duhem

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

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism. — Frank Scott

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

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. — Max Brooks

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

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. — Tim Minchin

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs. — Franz Kafka

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. — Freeman Dyson

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 great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume

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

No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity — David Hume

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