Skepticism Quotes

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Great intellects are skeptical.

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

Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

Science is the search for truth.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.

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

Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"