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Tag Name "Skeptic" (122)

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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John Ortberg
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
George Santayana
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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.
Woody Allen
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.
Ivar Giaever
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I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.
Christopher Hitchens
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A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.
Jack Smith
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For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.
Dag Hammarskjold
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She believed in nothing only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.
Dana Stabenow
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I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
Donald Miller
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There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.
Al Gore
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric Ambler
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.
Amber Heard
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If you are committed to the change, you're going to have to sideline the skeptics, or at least keep them under control. There may be a temptation to move them out but skeptics have a value - flagging weaknesses in the plan. Ideally, you will enlist their critical stance by challenging them to find ways to improve the plan as you go forward.
Gary A. Klein
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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony de Mello
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I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.
George Carlin
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You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
Austin O'Malley
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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.
George Santayana
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