Absolutes Quote by Ambrose Bierce

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

— David Hume

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly…

— Thomas Jefferson

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

— Ambrose Bierce

There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the…

— David Hume

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century…

— Carl Sagan

“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens....inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which…

— Anthony Everitt

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

— John B. S. Haldane

“[T]his progress of the physical sciences, which the passions and interest do not interfere to disturb; wherein it is not thought that birth, profession,…

— Marquis de Condorcet

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

— Ambrose Bierce