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Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

Rush Limbaugh
Curiosity, Conformity, Skepticism
Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Wisdom, Skepticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.89, Harvard University Press

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Suicidal, Skepticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Realism, Skepticism
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1465, Random House

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Michel de Montaigne
Understanding, Asking, Skepticism

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Mason Cooley
May, Belief, Skepticism

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Mark Twain
Lying, Might, Skepticism
Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.62, Courier Corporation

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

Lilian Jackson Braun
Skepticism, Skeptical, My Own
Lilian Jackson Braun (1990). “The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts”, p.142, Penguin

Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.

Kiersten White
Vampire, Skepticism, Honestly

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

George Eliot
Skepticism, Standstill

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

Cullen Hightower
Ideas, Skepticism, Suspicion

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis
Growth, Skepticism, Theology

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

Austin O'Malley
Men, Arguing, Skepticism

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Albert Schweitzer
Cities, Skepticism, Built
Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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