Quotes of: Skepticism Keyword

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Tim Ferriss

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

Bjorn Lomborg

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life