“Skepticism is slow suicide”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“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
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”
David Suzuki
“I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
