The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
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Carl Sagan
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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William Osler
Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.
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Dillon Burroughs
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.
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Thomas Carlyle
More Quotes By G. C. Lichtenberg
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
