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Letter "S" » skepticism
«Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism»
«Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.»
«I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all»
«Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.»
Author: John Berger
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Painter)
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«It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.»
«Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism»
«If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism»
«''Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?''»
«In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically»
«I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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