“ We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy. ”
- Alexander Herzen- Copy
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“ There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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“ Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ”
- Romain Rolland- Copy
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“ Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ There's a certain amount of skepticism that's natural. You just have to judge the particular person you're taking to. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ The empiricist… thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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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. ”
- Miguel de Unamuno- Copy
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“ He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity — a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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“ Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right… ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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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. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Regardless of people's skepticism, I am pursuing what is (and has been) my dream for my own purposes. I appreciate the importance that so many others have placed on this effort, but I would still do it if I was alone and no one was watching. ”
- Brian Walker- Copy
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“ It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. ”
- David Hume- Copy
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