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Skepticism   /skˈɛptɪsˌɪzəm/   Listen
Skepticism

noun
(Written also scepticism)
1.
Doubt about the truth of something.  Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection.
2.
The disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge.  Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism.






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"Skepticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... some skepticism. "It was not the Hurons, but their rivals, the Ottawas, who would have sent you to the stake," I explained curtly. "The Hurons—those of the Baron's band—would have held you as ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith

... are great feeder-dams to infidelity and skepticism is demonstrated by the infidel productions of the day. The dogma of ecclesiastic authority set up in opposition to reason and scientific discovery is the infidel's devil, and a very poor devil at that. For, when the Pope has interfered to settle ...
— The Christian Foundation, June, 1880

... of a footprint, with a hue very like that of blood. It was a twilight sort of a place, beneath a porch, which was much overshadowed by trees and shrubbery. It might have been blood; but he rather thought, in his wicked skepticism, that it was a natural, reddish stain in the stone. He measured his own foot, however, ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... diurnal interests. At last I felt myself once more a human being; and though the riddle of what is meant by life remained unsolved I was thankful for this return from the abyss—this deliverance from so awful an initiation into the mysteries of skepticism. ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... If I have been sent by God to make men believe, He will give me power to make them believe. Jesus Christ didn't have that power; it is the work of the Holy Ghost; we cannot persuade men and overcome skepticism and infidelity unless we are baptised with the Holy ...
— Men of the Bible • Dwight Moody


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