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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

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it. — Learned Hand

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

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

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. — Carl Sagan

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. — Jules Verne

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal

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

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive. — Al Franken

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

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on. — Brian Cox

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all. — Sylvia Plath

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. — Thomas Paine

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

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. — Mark Twain

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

Advice is a dangerous thing," the Watcher responded. "It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism. — Jan Siegel

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

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you. — Joseph Brodsky

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede

It's not true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred. — Marty Rubin

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

You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it. — Marty Rubin

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 irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths. — Sydney J. Harris

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

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. — Ann Druyan

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

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging. — Ben Ehrenreich

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

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

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

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. — Jim Clark

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

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. — Marty Rubin

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

Nobody believes in God like an atheist: "There is no God, and I am His prophet. — Alan W. Watts

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

We need sentiment and skepticism. Sentiment to be happy; skepticism to be free. — Marty Rubin

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 faces of the panel listening were the very embodiment of skepticism made flesh. — Lorrie Moore

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

Skepticism ... is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle