Scepticism Quotes
Scepticism Quote of the day
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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.
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.
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.
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.
Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
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.
Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath.
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.
The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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'?