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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump`s foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.
In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct.
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
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.
Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
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.
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.
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.
My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.
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.
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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.
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
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.
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
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.
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.
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.
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.
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.
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.
