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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.
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.
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
I totally understand skepticism, and I think it's so important for me to show validation of my readings.
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
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.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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.
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.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
When you try to create something different, there is always a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I think this is fair.
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
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.
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.
I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.
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.
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
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.
The more general skepticism about another millennial that likes to claim they're disrupting another industry - that doesn't serve me well.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
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.