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• We must know how to be skeptical without becoming skeptics.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect not to be surrendered too easily to the first comer.

  George Santayana

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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 who do.

  Billy Connolly

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• If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

  Woody Allen

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• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  George Santayana

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• Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

  George Santayana

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• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

  George Jean Nathan

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

  Simone Weil

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• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

  Elliot Lee Richardson

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• Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

  Emil Cioran

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• I don’t think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

  Walter Isaacson

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• Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

  Xi Zhi

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• 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.

  C. L. R. James

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• In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.

  Vincent van Gogh

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• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

  Albert Camus

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• The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

  Paul Ricoeur

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• Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

  Bertrand Russell

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• It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

  Ambrose Bierce

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