Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. . . Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.
Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.