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We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
-Bertrand Russell
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We Must Be Skeptical Even Of Our

Bertrand Russell
We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
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What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. if you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. on the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. one is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. but skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. so, as the saying goes, bill nye, do you believe in ghosts? no. however, i would love to see one. bring it on. i’m open minded to the idea, but the more i look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.
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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.
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Be skeptical, but not as a social position, not claiming to be so intelligent that you cannot believe what other people say. it's not about being right and making everybody else wrong. no, you are skeptical because you know without a doubt that everybody lives in their own story, and in their story they have their own truth. but it's only truth in their mind, just as your truth is only truth in your mind, and nobody else's.
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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.
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