Quotes Tagged With :skeptic

But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility....

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.....

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And....

For a great many skeptics are put to waste. But this is meant in the sense that which they vainly focus....

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always....

The single greatest cultural contribution of postmodernity is that it eliminates the presumption of intellectual....

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire....

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers;....

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged....

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter....