(237 quotes found)
“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
“If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism”
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”
David Suzuki
“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
“To believe in luck - is skepticism”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy”
Denis Diderot
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism”
Blaise Pascal