(244 quotes found)
“Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow”
Romain Rolland
“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument”
Bertrand Russell
“The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.”
Thomas Carlyle
“[Because advertisements generally cost less in tabloids than in broadsheets, the paper has focused on convincing potential skeptics of the format's benefits, said Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Guardian Newspapers.] We must have seen 600 clients and agencies before we launched the paper, ... We talked them through it - the vision, why it was so important, the design, the layout, how the ads looked - and every single media company has bought ads at the same value as before.”
Carolyn McCall
“Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.”
“I was a little skeptical coming here. I'm from California. We do earthquakes, no Katrina.”
Omarion
“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”
George Santayana
“The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.”
Mary Catherine Bateson
“There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.”
