Skepticism Quotes

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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

- Vincent van Gogh

To believe in luck - is skepticism

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

- Eric Ambler

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

- William Jennings Bryan

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy

- Denis Diderot

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

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

- George Santayana

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.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all

- Ralph B. Perry