Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

Question everything!

To think critically is always to be hostile.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

I love to doubt as well as know.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth.

Over the years, I paid careful attention in client meetings and jotted down things that quite didn't make sense. And I had the courage to raise questions and to be skeptical when something didn't add up.

I respect and believe skeptics.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.