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Skepticism  Quotes
You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can’t make him swallow it.

—Marty Rubin

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IndoctrinationSkepticSkepticism
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For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very...

—Peter Medawar

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CreativityCriticalImagination
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You can’t just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

—Stephen Fry

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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

—Robert G.

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Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with...

—Albert Einstein

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AtheismBooksDeceit
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered...

—Carl Sagan

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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people...

—Billy Connolly

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AngelsAtheismBelief
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Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing...

—Frederick Charles

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I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who killed each other about the orthodoxy of the Homoousion were far more sensible...

—G.K. Chesterton

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ModernismOrthodoxyPostmodernism
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We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

—Mitch Daniels

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It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to make cynical use of scientific language in an effort to rationalize the glaring...

—Sam Harris

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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others…

—Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Contemporary-RacismEmpathyEmpathy-Diversity
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Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.

—Robert Ingersoll

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AgnosticismAtheismBiblical-Criticism
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Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see...

—C.S. Lewis

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Objective-TruthScienceSkepticism
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a...

—Carl Sagan

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I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

—J.K. Rowling

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Common-SenseHermione-GrangerKnowledge
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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in...

—David Hume

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ReligionSkepticism
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Dean, you’ve been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we’re supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you’re being skeptical?

—Keith R.A.

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AngelsApocalypseDean-Winchester
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Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe science. I think it is possible to invert that idea, and to say...

—Michael Crichton

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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

—Victor Hugo

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What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

—Thomas Henry

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to...

—Thomas Paine

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There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets...

—Anne Rice

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HumanityLonelinessSkepticism
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Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a proprietary affection for his or her ideas and findings. Even so, you don’t...

—Carl Sagan

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Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

—Criss Jami

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ArgumentAuthorityBelief
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The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on...

—David K. Shipler

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(Chief of Staff) Russell (Jackson) hits the trust reset button every morning.

—Madam Secretary

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LeadershipSkepticism
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[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

—Joseph Brodsky

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DiscomfortDoubtSkepticism
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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

—Theophrastus

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CowardiceSkepticismSupernatural
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No one, in the world’s whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever...

—Robert G.

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BeliefMiraclesReligion
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

—Albert Einstein

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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be...

—Carl Sagan

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SkepticismTruth
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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

—Christopher Hitchens

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EvidenceSkepticism
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It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one...

—George H.

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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

—G.K. Chesterton

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BiasPostmodernismSkepticism
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La pensée ne doit jamais se soumettre, ni à un dogme, ni à un parti, ni à une passion, ni à un intérêt, ni à une idée préconçue, ni à quoi que ce soit, si...

—Jules Henri

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Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most skeptics opposed to him are selective skeptics, applying their skepticism to the...

—Johnson

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if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary

—Tim Krieder

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JobsSkepticismWorking
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God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.

—Ben Goldacre

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ScienceSkepticism
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The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the...

—Carl Sagan

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Don’t you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don’t you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and...

—Isaac Asimov

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EvidenceFaithSkepticism
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

—David Hume

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The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.

—Marty Rubin

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ArtSkepticismThe-Arts
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A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the point of studying the impossible? Only a fool would waste his time. The...

—Michael Crichton

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Laws-Of-NatureScienceSkepticism
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If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli’s, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view....

—Pauli

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CriticismFascinationInterest
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History warns us … that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

—Thomas Henry

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FateHeresyHistory
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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we...

—Thomas Paine

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MiraclesReligionScience
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My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was scarce 15 when, after doubting by turns of several Points as I found...

—Benjamin Franklin

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ArgumentDeismDeist
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Another of Mack’s patients says that the aliens have been taking eggs from her since she was sexually mature, and that her reproductive system baffles her gynecologist. Is it baffling enough to write the case...

—Carl Sagan

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