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Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

—Raheel Farooq

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How could any Lord have made this world?… there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit… No happiness lasted.

—Virginia Woolf

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[Sire,] je n’ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse.”En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l’univers ne indique pas Dieux.

—Pierre-Simon Laplace

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You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside...

—Bram Stoker

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It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid – if we’re talking not about an internal...

—Carl Sagan

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In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

—Criss Jami

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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

—Clarence Darrow

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Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart.

—Marty Rubin

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Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.

—L.E. Modesitt

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The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

—Richard Dawkins

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Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with...

—Robert G.

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Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens….inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the...

—Anthony Everitt

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The president’s level of skepticism is high.

—Ari Fleischer

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Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.

—Bart D. Ehrman

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That was treated with similar skepticism.

—Cheryl Healton

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If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first...

—Erich von

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Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to...

—N.T. Wright

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The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction...

—Steven Pinker

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Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves.

—Richard Heuer

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[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our...

—Thomas Jefferson

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I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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But I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble....

—Carl Sagan

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You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me” (Jn 20:29) This is not a plea to accept what goes against reason, but it is an invitation to discover...

—David D. Flowers

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To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

—Chris Womersley

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Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.

—Jacob Nordby

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[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of...

—Massimo Pigliucci

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When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.

—Raheel Farooq

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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

—William Osler

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The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

—Thomas Merton

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Should we be good?” I almost always get an answer.

—Carl Sagan

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Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

—George Carlin

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I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

—Christiaan Huygens

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It is easier to debunk a thousand myths than to write one true sentence.

—Marty Rubin

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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

—René Descartes

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A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.

—Sylvia Plath

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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of...

—Robert G.

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Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way...

—Albert Einstein

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A mode of thought does not become ‘critical’ simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

—Alan Sokal

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Isn’t atheism just another religion?’ No, it isn’t. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy,...

—Dan Barker

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The only valid faith today is disbelief.

—J.S.B. Morse

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We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being...

—G.K. Chesterton

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If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

—Mark Twain

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

—Patrick Ness

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Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

—Sextus Empiricus

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I am not suggesting that history or scepticism by themselves can provide all the answers to all these questions. History, after all, is not a forward-looking discipline. It can only tell us what happened the...

—Sidin Vadukut

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I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

—Andreas Vesalius

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deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be....

—Carl Sagan

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

—Hermann Weyl

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In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

—David Hume

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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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