#skeptic

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#belief #scepticism #skepticism #belief

You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men’s eyes, because they know – or think they know – some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young – like the fine ladies at the opera. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#science-and-religion #skepticism #men

[Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse." En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l'univers ne indique pas Dieux. ↗

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

#science #skepticism #religion

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others... ↗

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

#empathy #empathy-diversity #empathy-psychology #prejudice #racism

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#certainly #credulity #human #human mind #mind

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#listen #skeptical

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

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

#good #i #more #now #poll

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

#average #data #more #numbers #people