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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
I totally understand skepticism, and I think it's so important for me to show validation of my readings.
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
When you try to create something different, there is always a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I think this is fair.
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
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.
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.
It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.
In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct.
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.
I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.
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.
You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
The more general skepticism about another millennial that likes to claim they're disrupting another industry - that doesn't serve me well.
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
I'm going to prove I belong. There's a lot of skepticism about the type of player I am, where I come from, the University of Wyoming, obviously.
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
I've had a couple along the way, including an NBA official, who admitted to a little bit of skepticism when they first saw and heard me on the game.
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.
Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.
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.
Entertainment seems to be the only arena where children who pursue the work of their parents, which is an inherently natural thing to do, is met with a lot of skepticism.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone - investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.