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Tag Name "Sceptic" (38)

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It is the decisive people who have become civilised it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...
Thomas Huxley
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
Pierre Bayle
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
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She believed in nothing only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision no harps no communal order but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.
Evelyn Waugh
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope
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As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
Charles Caleb Colton
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It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.
Peter Sissons
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.
Bertrand Russell
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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