“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability”
David Hume
“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”
Miguel de Unamuno
“Skepticism is slow suicide”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one”
George Bernard Shaw
“Great intellects are skeptical”
Friedrich Nietzsche
