<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Skepticism - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skeptics are never deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skeptics are never deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in luck - is skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in luck - is skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10955</guid></item></channel></rss>