Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
Bertrand Russell in Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? (1947)
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The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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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.
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Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
Immanuel Kant in Critique of Pure Reason
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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
quote by Denis Diderot
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
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Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest...
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