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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
— Adam Smith
Skepticism does not sell well.
— Carl Sagan
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
— Alexander Herzen
Always be skeptical of what you learn from experience.
— Marty Rubin
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
— Karl Ludwig Von Knebel
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
— Chinua Achebe
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
— Immanuel Kant
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
— Jules Verne
What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
— Felix Rohatyn
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
— Raymond Aron
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
— Bryant McGill
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
— G.K. Chesterton
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The true skeptic is skeptical even about skepticism.
— Marty Rubin
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.
— Oscar Micheaux
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.
— E. M. Broner
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
— George Santayana
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
— Walter Gilbert
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
— George Santayana
The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.
— Karl Ludwig Von Knebel
Academic library collections are designed to support critical thinking, skepticism about the known, and curiosity about the unknown.
— Wayne Bivens-Tatum
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
— Fulton J. Sheen
A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
— Sylvia Plath
I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it.
— Marilynne Robinson
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
— Thomas Griffith
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"
— Michel De Montaigne
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
— David Suzuki
Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
— A.A. Milne
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.
— Ben Goldacre
There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it's so important. I've wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
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[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.
— Joseph Brodsky
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
— Michael Shermer
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
— William Pepperell Montague
I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.
— Lilian Jackson Braun
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.
— Christopher Hitchens
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalismand is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
— Walter Lippmann
I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.
— Michael Shermer
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
— A.O. Scott
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
— Albert Schweitzer
Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.
— Craig A. Evans
Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.
— D. J. Grothe
You have opposition to love?" "Not opposition so much as skepticism. I make it a practice not to believe in things I cannot see. — Sarah MacLean
Write something the skeptics will sneer at.
— Marty Rubin
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
— Charles Kennedy
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
— Rene Descartes
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
— Earl Weaver
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
— James Russell Lowell
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
— William Finnegan
Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.
— John Piper
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
— Antoine Arnauld
Great intellects are skeptical.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It seems the more we know, the less we believe.
— J.S.B. Morse
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can't quite make it all the way up to the brain.
— Fredrik Backman
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way
— Graham Linehan
Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.
— Alice Tisdale Hobart
INDECISION NOW!' isn't a battle cry that's going to rouse anybody's blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn't the sanest one.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
— Patrick Ness
Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
— Criss Jami
Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.
— Jacob Nordby
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
— Kevin Shields
Travel was a species of warfare.
— E. M. Forster
