Skepticism Quotes
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.
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A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
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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.
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There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
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We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
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The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but when we go back in simple faith to the one great fact of our redemption, we shall be both brought into closer fellowship with each other, and stimulated to more tender regard for the salvation of men.
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.
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Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
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It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
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Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.
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Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
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Skepticism is history's bedfellow.
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I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
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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.
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
