Skepticism Quotes

• Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Emotion
  • Mood

• What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Humanity

• Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Cynicism
  • Skepticism
  • Quasi-intellectualism

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

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

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Healthy
  • Depends
  • Punk

• To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Advice
  • Circumstances

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

  

  Paul Ricoeur
  • Logic
  • Skepticism
  • Validation

• If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Internet
  • Treat
  • Expert

• The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • Monster
  • Justification

• In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Enough
  • Harmony
  • Cynicism

• Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Risk

• Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Reason
  • Sincerity
  • Sufferings

• The more general skepticism about another millennial that likes to claim they're disrupting another industry - that doesn't serve me well.

  

  Vivek Ramaswamy
  • Industry
  • Skepticism
  • Disrupting

• I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Skepticism
  • Star Wars
  • Questioned

• The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Humility
  • Skepticism
  • Chastity

• General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Logic
  • Thesis

• 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
  • Great
  • Men
  • Faith

• Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Opinion
  • Experts
  • Organized

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

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • History
  • Sense
  • Skepticism

• The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is help people clarify what is amiss, by presenting a critique that is grounded in economics.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Book
  • Helping

• The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Religious
  • Product
  • Skepticism

• True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'

  

  William Bennett
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Healthy

• A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Rational
  • Irrational
  • Credulity

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