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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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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.: Eric Ambler
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Results from Classic Quotes:

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 (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler

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