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Scepticism Quotes by Denis Diderot
- Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone…
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- Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know,… — William Lane Craig
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume
- Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes
- A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism… — Thomas Jefferson
- The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the… — Natan Sharansky
- Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be… — Blaise Pascal
- Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in… — George Berkeley