27 Verbs to Use for the Word scepticism

In view of the diversity of human beliefs and the discredit which has historically fallen on the most axiomatic articles of faith, we must either admit scepticism to be the issue of the debate, or else, condemning our absolute view of truth, find some means of utilizing the relative truths which are all that humanity seems able to grasp.

How futile, how miserable, appears to me my scepticism in presence of that immense power of faith that, stronger even than love, triumphs over death at the very moment when it extinguishes life.

"Uncle Mose," said an inquirer, his intonation betraying scepticism, "they say you remember General Washington."

Here Sainte-Beuve discoursed with those whom he was afterward to criticise; here Talleyrand uttered his concise and emphatic sentences; here Lafayette won hearts by his courteous manners and amiable disposition; here Guizot prepared himself for the tribune and the Press; here Villemain, with proud indifference, broached his careless scepticism; here Montlosier blended aristocratical paradoxes with democratic theories.

The book perfectly renders the disillusion, languor and sentimentality which characterise a self-centred scepticism.

But Zeno, taking a stand on common-sense, fought for morality, as did Buddha before him, and long after him Reid and Beattie, when they combated the scepticism of Hume. Philosophy, according to Zeno and other Stoics, was intimately connected with the duties of practical life.

Lady Annabel endeavoured to find some substitute in the essays of Addison and Steele; but they required more knowledge of the every-day world for their enjoyment than an infant, bred in such seclusion, could at present afford; and at last Venetia lost herself in the wildering pages of Clelia and the Arcadia, which she pored over with a rapt and ecstatic spirit, that would not comprehend the warning scepticism of her parent.

Lucullus condemns the scepticism of the New Academythose reactionists against the dogmatism of past times, who disbelieve their very eyesight.

Here science confesses scepticism in regard to itself, and, moreover, not only confirms its own impotence but clearly points to the existence of another world which is something more than matter and motion, which cannot be explained either physically or chemically.

" Miss McQuinch, by a subdued but expressive snort, conveyed the most entire scepticism as to his solicitude about his mother.

Some had permitted themselves to doubt the story spread so industriously by Monsieur Pelletan and his friend, the notarythe proprietor of the Grand Hôtel Splendide had counselled scepticism.

Wants to cure my scepticism, and so on, ad nauseam.

Cicero ingeniously defends this scepticism, which was, in fact, the bent of his own mind.

It seemed as if he was so thoroughly convinced of a divine manifestation against him, that he despised any exceptional scepticism as utterly beneath his notice or attentionthoroughly engrossed, as he appeared to be, with the terrible sanction of a portent of some coming retribution.

Finally, he was compelled to discard his scepticism, and to admit that some people had undoubtedly the uncanny gift.

Where, I pray you, have you found this scepticism?

" "I can forgive her scepticism then," said Mrs. Hamilton, affectionately.

It only fosters scepticism in the minds of the ignorant, and teaches them to disbelieve their Bibles!" Old Principle looked up with a smile after the doctor's visit.

At each step in this process, in which philosophical speculation, historical criticism, natural science have all taken part, the opposition between reason and faith deepened; doubt, clear or vague, increased; and secularism, derived from the Humanists, and always implying scepticism, whether latent or conscious, substituted an interest in the fortunes of the human race upon earth for the interest in a future world.

The Reformation was the thin end of the wedge, it was the first denial of authority, and you see what it has led tomodern scepticism and modern pessimism.

I am of opinion that a tiger over ten feet long is an exceptionally long one, but when I read of sportsmen denying altogether that even that length can be attained, I can but pity the dogmatic scepticism that refuses credence to well ascertained and authenticated facts.

He removed this scepticism by inventing a new method of investigation, and by withdrawing the mind from the contemplation of Nature to the study of man himself.

To him there was a reality in love, in friendship, in justice, in beauty; and he repelled scepticism as to their eternal existence, as life repels death.

To disparage the internally vouchsafed power of discerning truth without the Bible or other authoritative system, is, to endeavour to set up a universal moral scepticism.

By that name let him stand forth impaled upon the scorn of an age that has not lost the grace of reverence, who, mindless of majestic age, the dignity of letters, an influence unrivalled and benign, associations tender and most holy, upon these venerable and sacred books spits his shallow scepticism, spumes his spleenful sarcasm, and smuts them with his own sensuality.

27 Verbs to Use for the Word  scepticism