#kept

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm. ↗

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen. ↗

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#both #certain #certainty #dissipate #dogmatism

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#gain #guided #happiness #ignorance #imperfect

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#deep #means #nonsense #religion #science

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#event #figure #going #had #i

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. ↗

— George Santayana

#like #readily #relinquished #should #skepticism

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#being #believed #her #kept #nothing

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. ↗