Quotes about skepticism




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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on skepticism
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"A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery."

Bender, Morris on skepticism    Share

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

Byron, Lord on skepticism    Share

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

Byron, Lord on skepticism    Share

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"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on skepticism    Share

"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."

Dewey, John on skepticism    Share

"He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation."

Douglas, Norman on skepticism    Share

"Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on skepticism    Share

"Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief."

Forster, Edward M. on skepticism    Share

"Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?"

Frost, Robert on skepticism    Share

"Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."

Johnson, Samuel on skepticism    Share

"Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on skepticism    Share

"We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need."

Mann, Thomas on skepticism    Share

"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."

Nathan, George Jean on skepticism    Share

"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism."

Pasteur, Louis on skepticism    Share

"Skeptics are never deceived."

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"The believer is happy; the doubter is wise."

Proverb, Hungarian on skepticism    Share

"Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything."

Proverb, Latin on skepticism    Share

"Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow."

Rolland, Romain on skepticism    Share

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."

Ruskin, John on skepticism    Share

"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect."

Santayana, George on skepticism    Share

"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."

Santayana, George on skepticism    Share

"The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing."

Santayana, George on skepticism    Share

"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."

Unamuno, Miguel De on skepticism    Share

"The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil."

Weil, Simone on skepticism    Share

"Skepticism is the beginning of Faith."

Wilde, Oscar on skepticism    Share

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