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"Skepticism", is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
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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.
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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.
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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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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.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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.
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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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.
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We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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