Browsing Quotes With Tag: skepticism (3)
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If the paradoxes I have gathered on these pages have on recurring theme, it is the folly of denying ignorance. Just because something is so doesn’t mean that we can know it. There is necessary ignorance, and it is more significant than mere solipsism would have us believe.
Speaker: William PoundstoneSource: Labyrinths of ReasonPosted: 15 Jun 2009 at 4:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I’m not so sure. I think a lot of people have stopped believing in love.”
“People haven’t stopped believing in love. They haven’t stopped wanting to be in love. They just don’t believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know now that… they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.”Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you follow these two rules – don’t believe yourself, and don’t believe anybody else – all of the lies that come from the voice of knowledge won’t survive your skepticism. Being skeptical is not about being judgmental; it is not about taking the position that you are more intelligent than others. You just don’t believe, and what is true will become obvious. This is very interesting because the truth survives your skepticism even if you don’t believe it. That is the beauty of the truth. The truth doesn’t need anybody to believe it. The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same thing about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don’t believe in lies, they simply disappear.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!