Skepticism Quotes

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

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

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

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

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.