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There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.
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Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.
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One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.
- Shaw's Preface
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A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.
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anti-intellectual
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
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Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
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The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism ... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
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I'm not a very skeptical person.
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Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.
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What of Art?
-It is a malady.
Love?
-An Illusion.
Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
What are you?
-To define is to limit.
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Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible option has not been explored, nothing can be said for certain.' That statement is itself a claim to knowledge!
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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Scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
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Academic sceptics argued for the conclusion that knowledge was impossible; Pyrrhonian sceptics aimed to reach no conclusions at all, suspending judgement on all questions, even the question of the possibility of knowledge.
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The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
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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.
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We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
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...the scepticism of men, who do not truly believe in new things unless they have actually had personal experience of them.
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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.
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Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything.
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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
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Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing
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Cynical' is a term invented by optimists to describe realists.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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Bah, cynics," said Dr. Meescham. "Cynics are people who are afraid to believe.
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I'm a hopeful cynic.
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Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.
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Most skeptics aren't really skeptics at all. To be truly skeptical, one must actually examine something, and take it seriously.
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After I charge their brains with my own brand of skeptical electricity, I unleash them - the New Cynics - upon a world that is slowly and happily critiquing itself to death.
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Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.
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Their scepticism about values is on the surface: it is for use on other people's values; about the values current in their own set they are not nearly sceptical enough.
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I'm a cynical idealist.
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The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heard
by listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.
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The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
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I am a contrarian.
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In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed.
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I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
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The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.
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Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.
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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
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... a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed ...
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Skepticism, that dry rot of the intellect.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
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It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual
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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador
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I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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A credulous mind ... finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass
with him; but never regards those that are plain and
feasible, for every man can believe such.
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Scientists are always skeptics.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Skepticism ... is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.
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Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.
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A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.
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Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Adherent:
Someone who will believe anything except what he should.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.
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Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.
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There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.
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A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.
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I believe I'm growing skeptical of cynicism.
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I am a free-willed, free-thinking, non-conforming subversive using the powers of intellect and common sense to not only question my environment but search for answers to those questions in order to share that knowledge with those around me for a better tomorrow.
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Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.
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I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.
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We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.
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I'm an old cynic.
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If I were not a doubter, I would know nothing.
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The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.
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It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.
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I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.
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Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision
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I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
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As a person ... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
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Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.