The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
Quotes about skepticism (12 Quotes)
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism, for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
agrees with the defendant's skepticism of the government's ability to prosecute this case in open court in light of the shroud of secrecy under which it seeks to proceed.
A sense of relationship and copartnership with God involves the concept of universal brotherhood and that will help to develop intelligent tolerance, open-mindedness, and good-natured optimism. Life is really a battle between fear and faith, pessimism and optimism. Fear and pessimism paralyze men with skepticism and futility. One must have a sense of humor to be an optimist in times like these. And you young women will need a sense of humor if you marry these young men and try to live with them. Golden Kimball once said in a conference, 'The Lord Himself must like a joke or he wouldn't have made some of you people.' But your good humor must be real, not simulated. Let your smiles come from the heart and they will become contagious. You may see men on the street any day whose laugh is only a frozen grin with nothing in it but teeth. Men without humor tend to forget their source, lose sight of their goal, and with no lubrication in their mental crankshafts, they must drop out of the race. Lincoln said, 'Good humor is the oxygen of the soul.' And someone paraphrased, 'The surly bird catches the germ.'
Can you dissolve your ego Can you abandon the idea of self and other Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.