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Saturday, 11 October 2008
Daily Quote:
"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it." (Byron, Lord - Life and Living)

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All that glitters is not gold.
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Browse Quotations about Skepticism

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Great intellects are skeptical.
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.


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