Skeptical Quotes

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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

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The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Charles Babbage

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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it.

Denis Diderot

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I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.

Thomas Paine

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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what`s true.

Carl Sagan

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

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The general root of superstition [is] that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Francis Bacon

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Bertrand Russell

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. 


Anatole France

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right.

Christopher Hitchens

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