Quotes of: Skeptical Keyword

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

Paul Ricoeur

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Sextus Empiricus

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

Marty Rubin

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

Michael Shermer

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

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

Samuel E. Morison

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.

Kenneth Fisher

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Vita Sackville-West

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

Joseph Brodsky

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

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

Al Gore

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

Adam Smith

To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.

Love

Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of th...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outw...

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

Now and at the Hour of Our Death

Religion would have us believe that immortality is reserved for the gods. We remain skeptical.

Venom

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Marty Rubin

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Michael Shermer