#skeptic

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil. ↗

— Nate Silver

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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. ↗

— Nate Silver

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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. ↗

— Adam Smith

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I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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I am the skeptic of skeptics. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#doubt #skepticism #age

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

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