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Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. (Quote by - David Suzuki)

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true. (Quote by - Dixie Lee Ray)

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. (Quote by - Samuel E. Morison)

Great intellects are skeptical. (Quote by - Friederich Nietzsche)

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. (Quote by - Xi Zhi)

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. (Quote by - George Santayana)

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. (Quote by - Hungarian Proverb)

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press. (Quote by - Thomas Griffith)

Skepticism is slow suicide. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)

An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. (Quote by - Virginia Hutchinson)

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Quote by - Adam Smith)

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. (Quote by - Jim Clark)

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)

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. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. (Quote by - Elliot Richardson)

With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)

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. (Quote by - Jason Biggs)

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand. (Quote by - Tracey Gold)

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. (Quote by - David Hume)

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