#skeptic

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

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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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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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