While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you.… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence,"… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
