Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Skepticism Quotes
ConfidenceCritical ThinkingSkepticism Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
CynicismGovernmentPoliticsSkepticismTradition The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
JournalistsMediaSkepticismTrust All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.
DogmaSelf RespectSkepticism All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
ExpertiseHumilityMasteryReflectionSkepticism Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
ChangeConformityInnovationProgressSkepticism New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
HopePublic PerceptionReligionSkepticism A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
Critical ThinkingInquiryInterdisciplinary StudiesSkepticismVirtue Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
CautionComplexityDecision MakingIndividualitySkepticism I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.
BeliefMisconceptionSkepticismTruth If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Critical ThinkingCuriosityEducationKnowledgeSkepticism As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
Critical ThinkingPublic OpinionSkepticismStatistics I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
AuthenticityDepthMisconceptionSkepticismTruth Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
BeliefHappinessSkepticismTruth The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Affordable InnovationInnovationRisk TakingSkepticismVisionary When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
Critical ThinkingEducationKnowledgeScienceSkepticism Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
DivinityMiraclesSkepticismTruth Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
CredulityExaggerationRealismSkepticism When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
CautionDistrustSkepticism If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
CreativityHuman PotentialInnovationResistanceSkepticism The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Cultural AttitudesEuropeGlobal PerspectivesGMOsSkepticism There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
Critical ThinkingDoubtOpen-mindednessSkepticism I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
