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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

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

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

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

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

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.