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The Skeptic
«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Ignorance
| Keywords:
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«For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.»
Author: Eric Ambler
| About:
Efficiency,
Law and lawyers,
Skepticism
| Keywords:
administered, consolation, inefficiency, skeptic, skeptics, subhuman, superhuman, The Skeptic
«Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.»
«Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt»
Author: Robert Lindner
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Authority
| Keywords:
rarely, skeptic, skeptics, The Face of, The Skeptic
«Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.»
«I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
divinity, divinity of Christ, notion, scorner, scorners, skeptic, skeptics, The Skeptic
«Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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confuses, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, dogmatist, dogmatists, skeptics, The Skeptic
«Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
concerning, mastered, profession, skeptic, skeptics, The Skeptic
«Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Cynicism,
Skepticism
| Keywords:
Cynics, entrust, plumb, plumbed, plumbing, skeptics, smaller, The Skeptic, wage